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www.boxoffice.com - : Timing is everything. Less than a decade before ''Moulin Rouge'' and ''Chicago'' set Hollywood drooling over the musical all over again, ''Terms of Endearment' director James L. Brooks made a bold gamble at making a musical with ''I'll Do Anything,'' a gamble that failed so miserably in audience testing that the songs were ultimately removed and the movie released ''dry'' at which point it promptly bombed. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : James L. Brooks' bicoastal sensibility, his ear for ironic, modern-day utterances and his able rendering of professional America into a moral array of originals and hacks are always pleasurable. His ''Broadcast News'' was one of the great American satires. Grown-up satires, that is -- let's keep John Hughes out of this. more...
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