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...that we've established my bona fides, let's get to you, George. For the third act of your career, you're gonna need some Jedi managerial advice. You came up with Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the '70s. You invented all kinds of super-cool technology that revolutionized moviemaking. And now it's time to use the force of your experience and nearly $4 billion net worth to leave Obi-Wan and Dr. Jones behind and tell a story you thought of after the Carter Administration. I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is George Lucas Repeating Himself? | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...70s, no Cannes festival was complete without some sexually explicit film to stoke outrage and fill screening rooms. Those randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...from a clever screenplay by ex-King of the Hill writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, is a tribute to the literally hundreds of '70s Hong Kong martial arts dramas that flooded Saturday-morning U.S. TV in the wake of Bruce Lee's success with Enter the Dragon. The plot, of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter, is familiar from many Jackie Chan films, including the one that made him a star, Drunken Master. Fans of Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies will have no trouble spotting this movie's Furious Five: the Crane (David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...past, people like Nisaburo and Hiroko might have chosen to live out their lives alone. But as Japan's society ages, attitudes about love and remarriage late in life are changing. Increasingly, divorcees, widows and widowers and never-marrieds in their 50s, 60s and 70s are finding companionship, defining for themselves a more mature vision of happily ever after. In 2006, three times more men and nearly five times more women in their 60s and 70s married for at least the second time compared with 20 years before, according to government statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love's Winter Bloom | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...Instead of a makeover, Cowen is more likely to offer Ireland the kind of matter-of-fact - some would say blunt - talk that has made him the first Irish premier to admit smoking marijuana, back when he was a student in the late '70s. "Unlike President Clinton, I did inhale," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's New PM Offers Plain Talking | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

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