Word: megabomb
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...aren't just points of comparison for Stipe; they're also colleagues. In recent years Stipe has become increasingly involved in the filmmaking scene. Rockers who go Hollywood often find that when they stop singing and start speaking, their words lose their magic: the great Bob Dylan in the megabomb movie Hearts of Fire, Mick Jagger in every flick he ever made. Stipe has slipped into films not as an actor but as a producer. In 1999 he had his greatest celluloid success as a co-producer of the Oscar-nominated movie Being John Malkovich. Stipe is currently producing...
...Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors for the "corporate studio mentality" that brought cookie-cutter creativity to the industry following a string of Hollywood financial disasters. He traced the trend back to the megabomb "Heaven's Gate." Said Coppolla: "They used that film as an excuse to take over. These are the people who brought you the Big Mac, and in the last twelve years I can't think of a classic they've made." Coppolla's sideswipe struck some as ironic, since...
...early as 1988,an angry James Nichols was talking about constructing a "megabomb"capable of destroying a federal building like the one in Oklahoma City, according to federal doccuments. An FBI informant who visited Nichols' Michigan farm house in December of that year saidNichols blamed the government for the terrorist bombing of Pam Am Flight 103. He mentioned a federal building in Oklahoma City, the informant recalls, then drew a diagram of a structure similar to the Alfred P. Murrah building, explaining that "a megabomb capable of leveling a building could be built." Nichols today called the report "a total...