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...bounded onto the Hong Kong screen as the head-shaved star of such '70s action classics as Challenge of the Masters and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin; his lingering impact in these roles led ex-fanboy Quentin Tarantino to cast him as a mob potentate in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and as the white-bearded Pai Mei in Kill Bill Vol. 2. Now in his early 50s, Liu still looks sinewy topless. This time his chief weapon is not his flying feet but a boomerang bowler he uses to decapitate his rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Review: Bollywood Goes East | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...then, are the other 299,999 dudes getting Botox? And are any of them not famous or not gay? I searched among my friends for a straight male Botox user and quickly found out that Bill Torres, a heterosexual fifth-grade teacher, had done it. Yes, the 42-year-old lives in Los Angeles, and yes, his wife is Jackie Guerra--the actress who wrote Under Construction, about losing 170 lb. (75 kg) and rebuilding herself with plastic surgery--but he is straight. So I went to his house with Dr. William Murphy to see Torres get Botoxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boytox: Botox for Men | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...wasn't just bias, fear or jingoism at work. The 9/11 attacks brought with them an economic squeeze, which meant greater pressure not to alienate viewers or advertisers by going against the flow. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer warned people to "watch what they say," Bill Maher lost his job on Politically Incorrect (but later moved to HBO) after calling American air strikes cowardly, and CNN issued memos to "balance" reports of civilian casualties with references to the deaths on 9/11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Obama Era, Will the Media Change Too? | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Check MateIf you're worried about splitting the bill, Post says it's fine for small parties to ask for separate checks at the outset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Recession Etiquette Lesson With: Peggy Post | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...When Bill Clinton entered the White House, Geithner had already returned to Washington, where he worked directly for Larry Summers during the Asian crisis. Summers was Deputy Treasury Secretary at the time and then succeeded Rubin. Now the two will be reunited: Summers will head the National Economic Council at the White House while Geithner runs Treasury. Washington being what it is - even in the midst of an economic crisis, people gossip - there has been much speculation about who will call the economic shots in the new Administration: Summers or Geithner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Tim Geithner Lead the Economy Out of Its Mess? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

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