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...Brien and a few ’Poon affiliates masqueraded as security guards while a decoy in a penguin costume made a grand entrance into a Science Center hall where actor Burt Ward was displaying his Batman costume. According to Widmer’s version of the tale, the penguin unleashed the code words...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Headed into this past weekend, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team had not defeated Princeton since Michael Keaton was still playing Batman...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking the Streak | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...Warner Bros. has announced that all its epics and big action films - the final Harry Potter episode, the next Batman - will be made, or at least released, in 3-D. Sony's decision to go with a new creative team for the next Spider-Man sequel is said to be related to the studio's wish to have the Marvel hero do his cavorting in 3-D. Spielberg is in postproduction on his 3-D Tintin movie. Will other moguls dare make the next film in the Transformers or James Bond franchise in a flat-screen version? It's more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 3-D Pileup: Too Many Movies, Not Enough Screens | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...devise a bladeless fan. Since the invention of the electric fan in the late 19th century, the air-stirring apparatus has not changed in any significant way - a quick Google Images search suggests that every model from the classic 1950s table fan to the industrial exhaust fan to a Batman-inspired fan has one consistent, characteristic feature: rotating blades. But Dyson did away with those, replacing them with a graceful ring set atop a cylindrical base. In essence, the device works like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. The motor in the base of the fan sucks in air and pushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dyson's Bladeless Fan: Worth the Hefty Cost? | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...With popularity on par with the Batman character in the U.S., Ultraman is a silver-and-red-clad superhero with buglike eyes and a reputation for countless victories. Actors and comedians - not former Prime Ministers - usually perform the voices for characters in the series' live-action or animation films. And at first, Koizumi was no exception; he originally turned down the role, in which the Ultraman King delivers a rousing speech to the film's main characters. But Koizumi's 28-year-old son Shinjiro, a first-time Diet legislature member, persuaded his father to do it. Shinjiro, a longtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Former PM Koizumi Lends His Voice to Ultraman | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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