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John C. Reilly has just told his new roommate Will Ferrell that he must never ever touch Reilly's precious drum kit. So as soon as Reilly is out of the house, Ferrell tiptoes into the sanctum, opens his pants and rubs his scrotum on the surface of the snare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step Brothers: "Oh, Grow Up!" "Never!" | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

Karadzic was an unlikely character to play on the historical stage. A peasant's son who never felt fully at ease in Sarajevo, he was an unsuccessful psychiatrist and a dismal poet. He made his feelings about the city clear, first in verse when he wrote a stanza that read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karadzic's Arrest Comes Too Late | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

Miro, in Spanish, means ''he saw'' -- an absurdly good name for a painter. Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

The term romantic comedy-thriller stirs many affable memories and, when it is attached to a new film, a few fond hopes. Think of Robert Donat, suave fugitive of The 39 Steps, double-talking his way out of a political rally and into the clutches of the man with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE LEGAL EAGLES Directed by Ivan Reitman Screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Gathered last week in four Atlanta auditoriums linked by closed-circuit television, 40,462 ''messengers'' to the annual Southern Baptist Convention clapped their hands and sang, ''Give me that old-time religion; it's good enough for me.'' That is just what they got moments later, when it was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM Fundamentalists consolidate power among Southern Baptists | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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