Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room property would be the resort's first casino to target patrons more versed in Ben E. King than Benny Goodman. Morton's chain of 11 Hard Rock restaurants, which serve down- home food and vintage rock, has grown to annual revenues of nearly $100 million. Morton's latest smash hit: a Hard Rock restaurant in Las Vegas, an instant landmark thanks to the 82-ft. electric guitar on its roof. The proposed casino will feature a 130-ft. guitar, plus a 75-ft. piano that will play hits by Elvis, Jerry Lee and other kings of rock...
...R.E.M., that rhythmically cerebral band from Athens, Ga., released Out of Time, which shot to the No. 1 slot in a brisk eight weeks. And Isaak had his first runaway hit. The DiVinyls, an Aussie group with a tough backbeat and a wicked sense of humor, have their own smash in I Touch Myself. The Black Crowes, a not entirely holy amalgam of the Byrds and the Allman Brothers, also found their album, Shake Your Money Maker, in the Top 10. The Mallomar metalists, Queensryche, got themselves near the chart top with Silent Lucidity, a tune about spelunking through...
Stars are brand names: they sell tickets because they are the people we want to see and be. So the received wisdom says Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves will be a summer smash, not because Americans want a fantasy history lesson set in 12th century England but because Kevin Costner is running the show. Costner has made so many left-field hits lately (baseball movies, even westerns) that Hollywood figures he can do no wrong. It wants to forget that in between Field of Dreams and Dances with Wolves, he detonated a minibomb called Revenge...
Tears streaming down cheeks or a grin from ear to ear equals good word of mouth. Last summer's surprise smash Ghost got 50 million moviegoers suitably weepy. So this summer's early line favored Dying Young, the Julia Roberts sudser about a former Candy Striper who falls in love with a failing patient. Hollywood had two nicknames for the film: Pretty Nurse and Can't Miss. But now second thoughts may be spoiling the party. 20th Century Fox has postponed the movie until late summer, and there's talk of changing both the downbeat ending and the title...
...game against Cornell. In the bottom of the first inning, Chris Carr, the Crimson hurler for the game, drove in the first run of the game with a base hit to center field. Harvard collected two more runs in the next inning when Kennon led off with a hard smash to center field and scored on a single. Desharnais nailed double to center field that knocked home Donaldson, to make...