In a desperate attempt to regain enemy ground, McLoughlin staged a weekend breakout.
After the weekend breakout of Northern Alliance forces at Mazar-i-Sharif and the rout of retreating Taliban forces, the Taliban commanders, with some exceptions, abandoned cities and fortified positions from Herat in the west to Taliqan in the northeast and then made a full retreat today from Kabul, the capital.
The rules of the marketplace dictate that "Weekend," the breakout hit of this year's South by Southwest Festival and now playing in New York, be considered a "gay film," a designation that generally refers to the sexuality of a film's maker, subject matter and target demographic.
"When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material," he says, acknowledging the success of his breakout feature Weekend (2011), which told the story of a one-night stand that turns into something much more for the men involved.
At the most recent gathering in San Francisco, I was honored to be both a participant and a speaker in a weekend full of presentations, breakout sessions, and discussions.
Before Vampire Weekend — this year's indie-rock breakout band, known for strafing African elements across its songs — a band like Abe Vigoda might have remained at the level of cult curiosity.
Haigh, whose breakout last film, "Weekend," explored sexual and emotional intimacy between two men in that brief time span, is attracted to stories about what falling in love does, and does not do, to people's lives, to the power of passion and jealousy to derange us and throw us off balance no matter what our ages.
Although it's not yet clear which app — if any — will be a breakout hit of the weekend, one thing is certain about this year's conference: It will be much leaner than previous years.
The first "Weekend Update" of season 40 had two other breakout stars: "SNL" writer and "Relationship Expert" Leslie Jones, and young newcomer Pete Davidson making his "SNL" debut.
Vampire Weekend, the three-fourths-Brooklyn group that is the breakout indie success of the year, updates the clean lines of new wave with touches of African guitar.
At the time, Fallon, a former breakout star on "Saturday Night Live," where he co-anchored "Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and played memorable characters such as obnoxious IT guy Nick Burns, was rebounding from a lackluster attempt at a film career, starring in the flops "Taxi" and "Fever Pitch".
