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...that were all there was to say about Louise Brooks, we would not be celebrating her centenary today. The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco would not be holding "Happy Birthday, Louise" party to accompany a performance of Lulu, a play based on her signature film Pandora's Box. The Criterion Collection would not be issuing a double-disc edition of the Pandora's Box DVD. And Rizzoli would not have published Louise Brooks; Lulu Forever, a handsome volume with more than 100 large photos and a warm consideration of her career by Peter Cowie. (Yes, that's the same Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...Gibson's hand is on the movie too. It was the success of Gibson's 2004 Crucifixion film, The Passion of the Christ--which no studio wanted to touch and which earned $1 billion in worldwide box-office and DVD sales when the director funded it himself--that made believers out of Hollywood executives and ushered in a flurry of faith-based filmmaking. "I could kiss Mel on both cheeks for showing Hollywood the size of this market," says Matt Crouch, son of televangelists Paul and Jean Crouch and producer of One Night with the King, the story of Esther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooray For Holy-wood | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...which López Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Calderón's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico's nationalization of Rockefeller's Standard Oil company holdings in 1938 is still commemorated every March 18 as National Expropriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Paradox | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...fight back, the city's traders have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Given their numbers, however, their most useful tool might be the ballot box. Local, state and federal politicians, worried that the clean-up will hurt them at the next election, have filed legal challenges against the Supreme Court's decision, and plan to propose new legislation that would allow some merchants to keep their shops. Smith also wrote that the U.K.'s "government is influenced by shopkeepers." That seems equally true in today's India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inconvenience Stores | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...early stages. The referees called four first-period penalties on Colgate, including a five-minute major and a game misconduct on Mike Werner, who slammed into junior Jon Pelle along the right boards at 9:25. The Crimson, for its part, sent two men to the penalty box in the game’s first four minutes en route to four first-period offenses of its own. “Emotionally and physically, we were a little bit drained coming in,†Donato said. “I think that showed up with a couple of lazy penalties?...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Justin Tobe Steps Back in Net | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

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