Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitions of a miracle and a Hollywood sleeper hit are not very far apart; both involve an extraordinary contradiction of what seems to be an ironclad natural order. Last week studio executives had a choice of interpretations as they cast their eyes over the weekend grosses. The No. 1 and No. 2 movies in the U.S. were, unsurprisingly, Fight Club and Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding...
...time, for a familiar fall ritual, the Yearbook Photo. Some went shopping for a neck-line that could be immortalized, others stressed over the appropriateness of pearls and a few simply didn't care that much at all. Facing a two-hour wait to access the velvet-ensconced studio, I sympathized with the latter camp and staged a quick disappearing...
When women came to his studio just so they could experience the famous Stern leer, I accepted Stern's performance. I laughed at his inveterate truth telling...
...Wrestling after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power and the hetero fear of gay sexuality (literally striking dumb straight men who witness...
...obviously painful as it must be to watch this banality under any circumstances, the situation is even more painful under the treatment of largely indistinguishable. Of all the actors here, Jerry O'Connell is the one with the greatest star power. The other actors have had roles in various studio fare such as Suicide Kings and American Pie, but all in rather minor roles, and from the calibre of performances given it is easy to see why. The actors all seem to be reading off Teleprompters, and all possess very little range of emotion. Even the director acknowledges this woodenness...