Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are several times in the calendar year over which the executives of big Hollywood studios--Sony, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, etc.--just seem to salivate. This past summer, the prime time to release big-budget and sometimes quirky films, box office receipts totaled a touch over $3 billion, the biggest ever in the history of movie making. Summer is one season where the amount of hype and advertising simply inundates various forms of media; but Christmastime and the preceding period is no less intense in film circles when various movies with varying appeal play (to variable degrees...
...characters into types or making his script implausible. There are ample comedic moments: ass jokes, an exploding cow, the presence of Marky Mark (who despite his accomplished acting in this film and Boogie Nights sadly will never outlive his Calvin Klein poster-boy image), but Russell integrates his comic touch into Three Kings in a way that makes the moments of absurdity the most revealing and saves the serious plot from the humorlessness of an Oliver Stone epic...
...expressed his feeling that no matter how hard he tries to keep up with the times, his 10 years away from the newsroom have left him out of touch. The Nieman Foundation, he wrote in his letter to the advisory board, is ready for "an upgrade...
...There's an important process of the University internally getting in touch with itself," said Paul S. Grogan, vice president for government, community and public affairs, of the community outreach initiative...
...think it was mainly mental mistakes," junior midfielder Maisa Badawy said. "The sad thing is, we looked amazing in the first half. [UMass] had no shots, no corners. I don't even think Anya had to touch the ball, our backs did such a great job of keeping the forwards from receiving passes...