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The idea, according to a director's statement by Demme, is to pay tribute to Robert Altman's method - hand-held cameras, casual framing, a sense that the dialogue is more overheard than consciously crafted. But the result is a mess. Kym, in Hathaway's unsympathetic performance, is an annoyingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rachel Getting Married, Demme Getting Messy | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

While Growden is mostly clear-eyed about Fingleton, he's too kind to him here. Bradman, who outlived Fingleton by 20 years, was entitled never to forgive him for this childish display, but he showed a greater capacity to move on than Fingleton ever did. Growden's work is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knocking Down The Don | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

'My name is not Gordon.' MICHAEL DOUGLAS, actor, referring to Gordon Gekko, his character in 1987's Wall Street, when asked about the financial crisis and whether "greed ... is good"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

About as common per capita as vegans in Texas, Republicans in Hollywood are having a coming-out party of sorts in Zucker's new movie, An American Carol. Hollywood's first brazenly right-wing comedy, it borrows Dickens' A Christmas Carol narrative to tell the story of left-wing activist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Conservatives | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

There's no way to tell during this current distress whether we're repenting or just retrenching. THRIFT-store sales are up. Cars are shrinking. P. Diddy retired his private jet to save on gas. In hard times, people often rediscover the peace that prudence brings, when you try to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Patriots Don't Spend | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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