Add to the mix Scott Elliott, the artistic director of the New Group, who did very nicely by the New York productions of Mr. Din's "East Is East" and "Rafta, Rafta... ...... Sounds like a nearly foolproof recipe for a good time, doesn't it, maybe even a smash hit?
By universal acclaim we live in the golden age of television — and yet, the ratings for even a smash hit TV show today are the same ratings that would probably have gotten a show cancelled in a matter of weeks thirty years ago.
With fingers floating across keys, bows gliding over strings and smiles spreading over the faces of musicians and audience members alike, the RCM's grand opening of Koerner Hall was an enchanting evening and a smashing success.
Many pundits have already declared that deal a smashing success, even though it is not even a year old.
In Rome, Djokovic did not appear to be in a better place mentally; he grumbled and even smashed a racket.
The trade and economic disputes that incited tensions -- and a sub-genre of paranoid movies about Japan -- in the 1980s, when nine members of Congress even smashed a Toshiba radio with sledgehammers, rarely make an appearance nowadays.
To make this more of a family affair, they even smashed open a locked trunk in the basement and shipped off our childhood toys.
"But the party the conservancy gives at the Plaza is a smashing success, even if it is a little removed from the cause".
If you think about the glorious delight of Tony Stark building his super-suits and hanging around being himself in the first two-thirds of Iron Man, and how that film would've been a smashing success even if that's all it did for two hours, you have some idea of what Shazam! feels like.
The film puts Loach in line for his first box-office hit since Kes, possibly even a worldwide smash.
