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...movie house, waiting for Tropic Thunder to begin, but first you have to sit through the commercials and previews of coming attractions. There's a spot for--wait a minute--Booty Sweat, an energy drink from the rapper Alpa Chino. Then a trailer for Scorcher VI, a Rambovian sequel in which the Stallone figure closely resembles a bulked-up Ben Stiller. A teaser for The Fatties: Fart 2 seems awfully Eddie Murphy, with one comic playing multiple members of a morbidly obese family, yet the actor under all that latex could well be Jack Black. Finally, a preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...film a month behind schedule after five days of shooting, the director (Steve Coogan) decides to go for that verismo vibe: they'll finish the film with no crew around, only hidden cameras and surprise explosions. But a couple of things go wrong, and the stars, plus rapper-actor Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and tyro talent Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), wander into a real war with actual bad guys and live ammunition. Art meets life; schlock faces imminent death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...brands PET FOOD In 2007, Menu Foods pet products tainted by melamine--which caused kidney failure in more than 100 pets--were pulled from shelves. A SHOCKING DISPLAY A Humane Society video of workers at a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse forcing unhealthy animals to move by prodding them or using forklifts caused an uproar when it spread online. It prompted a USDA investigation, which found that these "downer" cows--ones that are unable to walk--weren't being properly inspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...recall was sparked by a video released by the Humane Society of the United States, after a six-week long undercover investigation at the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse in Chino, California. The video, available on YouTube, shows “downers,” crippled cows too sick to even walk, being shoved by forklifts and dragged by chains towards the slaughter floor. Federal law bans slaughtering downers because of the health risks of eating diseased animals...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Where’s the Beef? | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Roger Gunson detail the strange manner in which the case proceeded. Two court-appointed psychiatrists examined Polanski and determined that he was not a mentally deranged sex offender. Both attorneys and the victim argued for a plea bargain, but Rittenband, concerned with appearing soft on crime, sent Polanski to Chino State Penitentiary to undergo another 90-day evaluation period. On several occasions, Rittenband persuaded the attorneys to put on a show for the media, Dalton and Gunson say, arguing their sides even though the judge had already told them his plans in chambers. The attorneys also cite various times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redeeming Roman Polanski | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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