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Since this character study is also an action-adventure film, Carl has to go somewhere - Paradise Falls, obviously. But he doesn't have to leave his home. Threatened with eviction to an old folks' home, he attaches 20,000 helium-filled balloons to his house, and off it floats toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and Away: Another New High for Pixar | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

It started with a cartoon drawing: a cluster of gaily colored party balloons held by a cranky old man, his eyes asquint, as if daring any kid to take one. Pete Docter's sketch, made back in '04, suggested another droll innovation at Pixar, a studio proud of taking risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and Away: Another New High for Pixar | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

The items sold on Tuesday include books, drawings and paintings Marceau had collected or created himself. Selling for just over $400 was a French translation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, whose character Pip Marceau, fused with Charlie Chaplin's screen persona, was inspiration for the French mime's Bip. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marcel Marceau's Not-So-Silent Auction | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

To mitigate their anguish, Martell and longtime Marceau assistant Valérie Bochenek formed the association "A Museum for Bip" - a reference to the mime's famous sailor-suited character. Its initial aim was to raise $135,000 and buy as many of Marceau's most artistically significant relics as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marcel Marceau's Not-So-Silent Auction | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

Her tooth-and-claw campaign for the poetry professorship might also be described as Darwinian. The front runner, West Indian poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, withdrew his candidacy four days before the poll after the resurrection of 1982 allegations that he sexually harassed a Harvard student. Appearing in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwinian Struggle: A Poet Felled by Scandal | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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