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Giamatti appreciates the sympathy, and he is happy to play a lead when the fit is right (he's a bird-loving auto upholsterer in this fall's indie The Hawk Is Dying), but really, he'll do anything. "I love that up-at-2-a.m.-and-a-bizarre-movie-comes-on feeling," says Giamatti. "I enjoy being in those things." One of them, Duets, a 2000 karaoke-road-trip killing-spree film that the New York Times said "flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor," was actually not bad enough for his taste. "In the script there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Best Character Actor | 5/31/2005 | See Source »

...gripe with the popular new genre. "I don't think women characters were well realized," she says. "They were the subordinate characters. They were the wife, the spouse, the girlfriend. I thought, I'm a woman trial lawyer. I'm not that rare a bird." She also found the characters too white bread. "I'm an Italian American," she says. "I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. I saw no Italians and Jews. I want people whom I recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinstripes And Pearls | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...human death rate in hard-hit northern Vietnam has fallen to 34% this year, down from almost 80% for the entire country in 2004. Good news? Not if you're an epidemiologist. Investigators for the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised concerns that even though the H5N1 bird-flu virus appears to be weakening, it may be adapting better to human beings?potentially opening the door to a flu pandemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bird Flu Picks a Genetic Lock | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...list athletes star in games like Julius Erving & Larry Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Geek to Chic in 33 Years | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...EARLY BIRD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 5 Memoirs That You Won't Forget | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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