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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about how he is now." Even though Louisiana offers no hope for parole, Cain says he believes Howard is rehabilitated and should be freed if he can meet the family of the man he killed and receive its forgiveness. Howard nods in agreement, because justice is as simple and brutal as that, even if he is going to die here in Angola prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola, La.: The Lessons of Cain | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...howls like a werewolf. It kills with the brutal indifference of Dracula. Like a rabid dog, it rages and spits. Like Diane Sawyer, it never sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unleashing A Storm | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...Myself and Irene": One of the less brutal reviews of the Farrelly brothers' most recent adventure pointed out that viewers are less likely to be insulted by the movie's vulgarity than by its insipid and totally boring plot. Need I say more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to Tinseltown: If Your Films Suck, No One Will Bother to See Them | 6/29/2000 | See Source »

Cooking as a giving, communal activity exists only in Olive Garden commercials and the segments of Martha Stewart Living in which Martha is off-camera. In actuality it has morphed into a brutal sport, with celebrity chefs jockeying for high Zagat ratings, cookware deals and TV contracts. Add to that the Japanese shame of losing face, and you've got a game show that makes Survivor seem like Hollywood Squares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy Of Cooking | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...least had an attitude, and that's what director John Singleton's Shaft lacks. It begins by focusing on an upper-class racist murderer (Christian Bale) whose motives we don't quite believe. So the movie quickly shifts its attention to a sly, brutal, self-regarding Latino drug dealer (Jeffrey Wright). You can understand only about one in three words he speaks, but you catch his very scary drift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Has Shaft Been Shafted? | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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