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...combination. Exposure to life is really important. That is the problem in Singapore. There is so much social control. It starts with education, the way we are groomed as citizens. We are taught to follow rules all the time and it is really hard to see out of that box. For me, I am lucky because I was born outside of Singapore, so I can see the box really clearly. As an artist, I don't have to conform. But a lot of my friends don't see the box. I have a lot of friends who were artists with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore Redux | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...quite yet, the Almighty seemed to say when the initial movies based on these franchises were released. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe premiered in late 2005 and earned a burly $291.7 million at the domestic box office, plus $453.1 million abroad, briefly becoming Walt Disney Co.'s all-time top-grossing live-action film. The first sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, has just arrived, with blockbuster expectations. And the next chapter, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has already reserved the first May weekend of 2010 to open in movie theaters around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Narnia Hits While Golden Compass Flops | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Golden Compass, the first of the Pullman trilogy, reached the screen last December. It cost the same as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($180 million) but grossed only $70 million at the domestic box office. The very respectable $301 million the movie earned in foreign markets wasn't enough to mask the disappointment of its producing studio, New Line. No sequels were green-lighted, and in February New Line was folded into its parent company, Warner Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Narnia Hits While Golden Compass Flops | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...four young heroes gave kids from 6 to 16 someone to identify with. Disney marketed the film smartly, playing up the Christian aspects to religious groups and playing them down to everyone else. Now Prince Caspian (directed, like the first film, by Andrew Adamson) should be a box-office dynamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Narnia Hits While Golden Compass Flops | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...essentially a fancy scale, which not only measures your weight, but also detects your equilibrium with startling precision. To play Wii Fit, you stand on the board and go through a series of exercises/games that fall into one of four categories: balance, strength, aerobics and yoga. You can box, snowboard or hula-hoop. You can practice your tree pose and lotus position. Or you can play a tilting game that uses careful body movements to maneuver balls across a shaky platter onscreen, as you try to sink them into various holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighing Wii Fit: Serious Fun | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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