mischance

In Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Canterbury Tales, written in the 14th Century, he said: "And on a Friday fell all this mischance".

Like Paul Stover, many have simply decided not to decide for now, hoping that some combination of age, legal drama or mischance might avert a rematch they dread.

He concludes that “for all their focus on random mischance, nothing in the brothers’ vise-tight, magisterially engineered movies could possibly be happening by accident.”

Much about a buzzy evening served to remind an observer of the role that chance and mischance play in any Hollywood success.

But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth.