When the shuttle was called out, Lin bolted into the empty space near the court at Wembley Arena, a display of ecstasy punctuated by tears, a flop on the floor and his go-to ritual: the shirt toss into the crowd.
David Wheatley, Margate We say: After sketch writing for Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks made a brilliant debut as a writer and director with this sparkling 1968 comedy about Max Bialystock, a scheming Broadway impresario (Zero Mostel) and a snivelling accountant Leo Bloom Gene Wilderr), who concoct a plan to get rich by producing a flop called Springtime for Hitler.
Hawks's vision of sexualized tyranny rings fearsomely true, but the film, with its silly costumes and stilted dialogue (co-written by William Faulkner), was a flop.
WHILE by no means a flop, the most innovative idea to come out of the Japanese camera industry in decades the mirrorless digital camera has not exactly taken the photographic world by storm.
In THE PRODUCERS (1968), Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play the unlikely business partners who decide to make a bundle by deliberately producing a flop stage musical, selling several hundred percent of it and keeping it all.
Although the profits of both these banks were much lower than a year ago, they were still better than had been expected.An emergency rights issue by HBOS was a flop: only 8.3% of the British bank's shares were taken up by investors.
Even during the drop-off that struck Broadway in the weeks after the attacks, customers lined up on West 44th Street to see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in Mel Brooks's musical comedy about two producers who scheme to gain a windfall by intentionally backing a flop, a musical about Hitler.
The show is by no means a flop, but it's not a triumph, either French-Canadian director/designer team Renaud Doucet and André Barbe update Donizetti's 1843 comedy to 1960s Rome, where Don Pasquale owns a shabby pensione and his nephew Ernesto manages the reception.
In spite of the presence of two of the era's hottest movie stars, Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster (who was also one of the producers), "Sweet Smell of Success," directed brilliantly and under enormous duress by Alexander Mackendrick, was a flop when it opened in the summer of 1957.
It's notable that Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said that the iPhone 5C - derided by many as a "flop" - had been successful in pulling in Android users: I think it's important to point out that if you look at some of the numbers we're seeing on first-time iPhone buyers, people that bought the iPhone 4S, 85% were first-time iPhone buyers, and the 5C, 69% first-time iPhone buyers.
