Despite the international publicity, Bacon doesn't think desperate dieters will consider Robertson a cautionary tale.
According to the experts, it's a very wise fiscal decision, and even heavy-hitters who aren't necessarily desperate for cash still want to break even.
Both films hark back to a more somber, measured pace and muted palette, a time when movies weren't so desperate to rush us off our feet and sought to engage the mind -- not overload the senses.
Everybody claims this isn't just a desperate publicity stunt, but you have to wonder.
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Meanwhile, ABC doesn't appear to be desperate for advertisers.
Republican Mitt Romney, who must be getting desperate since he can't get beyond 15 percent in national polls, is using the case to bludgeon Rudy Giuliani.
Just when you thought that the former first lady couldn't come across any more unlikable, desperate, and vindictive, the floor collapses and we find ourselves on a new level.
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It's my first trip to Baghdad and I've been struck as much by how calm it can be when bombs aren't going off, as by how desperate and tragic it is, even at the best of times.
And EU member states haven't provided any helicopters in Darfur despite the desperate need there.
Our house became a prison that I was desperate to, but couldn't bear, to leave.
"I felt desperate, but I didn't shed a single tear, because I knew they were monitoring me all the time, " she says.
That's right, very impressive performance and the way the people have come out with their message takes one back to those stirring pictures of the first election in South Africa, doesn't it, the long queues of people desperate to vote, prepared to wait until they can.
But those desperate to buy tickets just can't believe it when they hear about the empty seats.
"People are desperate to migrate, because they don't think this land gives them the opportunities they need, particularly for girls, " he said.
"You would be worried if there wasn't that hunger and desire to win - everyone is desperate to do as well as they can and win trophies, " he said.
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They are desperate to cool to a demographic that doesn't yet know what is cool.
Some analysts think Iraq won't accept being constrained by an Opec quota - being so desperate for every dollar it can get to pay for reconstruction.
"It's bringing people together - some of whom are prepared to trade down so that they don't have the spare room but some of whom are in desperate need and you're not even hearing the voice of those people in this debate, " he said.
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The croaky debate about the quarterback's ability continues among desperate holdouts, arguing like isolated rebels who don't know the battle's over.
In fact, we found that soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado often can't get the help they need even when they're feeling desperate.
But there's one thing that the Times, my former employer, probably isn't: a practical model to be emulated by a newspaper industry desperate for a new game plan.
"I don't think they'll do outright nationalization, but they may be desperate to find ways to tax Western investors, " says Rice, who serves as a director of Chevron and Transamerica and is a member of J.
"It's about four hours and you've got all these desperate musicians trying to go for a fag and they don't want you to leave your seats and it's kind of not fun, " he explains.
In reinstalling the piece, she says that she couldn't help seeing the parallels between Scheherazade's plight and Matisse's own desperate situation.
But northern Mexico, desperate for reliable gas supplies to fuel its thriving manufacturing sector, couldn't afford to be so absolutist.
It's one of the oldest accounting scams around: Desperate executives book corporate revenue in a reporting period knowing that it doesn't meet the rules for revenue recognition.
Whatever Avigdor Lieberman's drawbacks may be, they clearly don't include excessive worship of the international community's taste for opulent statecraft or a desperate desire to be loved by Europe.
Second, many of the companies and individuals desperate to borrow are those in some financial difficulties, so the banks don't actually want to lend to them.
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