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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picture earned $5.5 million in 1,412 theaters - a slow start for a film meant to give the ailing Weinstein Company a life-saving box-office boost. Movies about movies are rarely big hits (audiences want to eat the sausage, not see how it's made); a downer musical about a pampered, well-paid man experiencing a failure of imagination is an even tougher sell. The movie will get a boost from exposure on the Jan. 17 Golden Globes show, where it is nominated for five awards. But on Christmas, Nine was the one orphan. It got coal, not gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Box Office: Avatar Beats Sherlock and Alvin | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...like ambient synth, trippy electronic beats, and a yin-yang of light and dark tones, Atlas Sound succeeds in escaping the ill effects of the dreaded sophomore slump, creating a lively, relaxing, musically adept and diverse second solo project. With an ideal balance of fast and slow, poppy and downer, “Logos” is a commendable addition to Cox’s already impressive body of work...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Atlas Sound | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Beale. The host energizes the nation with his cry, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" It's hard to find a film that better captures the rotten vibe of the early 1970s, when America found itself suffering through one downer after another: failing companies, tense foreign relations, high unemployment, rampant incivility, spiraling deficits, corruption in high places, a seemingly endless war. Sound familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...first time that Joshua S. Downer ’09 called Taylor M. Owings ’08 his girlfriend, he was wearing a “redneck fat suit.” It was Halloween 2006 and one of Owings’ roommates had just asked Downer why he had not yet asked Owings to be his girlfriend. Downer had assumed it was implicitly understood that they were together, but on the way back from a party, when he ran into someone he knew, he introduced Owings as his girlfriend. Downer and Owings had met earlier that semester...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Joshua S. Downer ’09 and Taylor M. Owings ’08 | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...Jewish Studies 170. Job and the Problem of Suffering — "Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?" What a downer. Enroll to find the answer to this question and more depressing ones from...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: New Courses, New You | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

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