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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image framing of a Robert Bresson tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ninja Babe in Jerusalem | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...vividly remember the shoes I wore growing up, and I don't know where I'm going to find them. There was a standard shoe for spring-summer--a T-strap white sandal with the holes poked out in front--and also a classic saddle fall-winter shoe. Buster Brown made good ones; so did Stride Rite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Soleful Questions | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...called I Can't Explain. The title seemed particularly apt last week, after police in London questioned him for 80 minutes on suspicion of possessing child pornography taken from the Internet. Actually, Townshend insists that he can explain. One of rock's great human conundrums--aggressive softy, poetic guitar buster--Townshend has admitted that he once used his credit card to enter a child-porn site. But he maintains that he went there only because he is researching pedophilia for his autobiography, a book that he says will deal with his suspicion that he was molested in early childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Up In the Web | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

Rosendorff said Herbert regarded himself as a “quack-buster...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maverick Folic Acid Researcher Dies at 75 | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...story of comic actors doing serious turns is as old as Buster Keaton and as contemporary as Jim Carrey. But, in fact, Sandler, like the greatest of Hollywood stars, hasn't really changed at all. Rather, Hollywood has adapted to him. Sandler, 36, is not the kind of actor who "stretches." Like Humphrey Bogart or Jimmy Stewart, Sandler ultimately plays himself, which is what his fans pay money to see. Sandler's shrewd move is to keep playing Adam Sandler and get a thoughtful movie made around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sandler, Seriously | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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