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...carried on an affair with a teenager he met in a toy store B) He refused to stop singing Uptown Girl at karaoke night C) He flies into a jealous rage when her Total Gym infomercial with Chuck Norris comes on TV D) If 50 is the new 40, then Cook is more interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...most obvious failure was in casting Elliot as Hammer. A shortish guy with a strident, high-pitched voice, he's like a teenager playing Hammer in a school pageant, and he's dressed in a trenchcoat so oversize, it seems to be holding Chuck Bednarik's shoulder pads. Elliot is further undercut by the dialogue. "I like to stick my neck out," he tells Charlotte, "Makes me think I'm tough." (Mike can't have the pretense of toughness; he's got to exude it.) In one scene, Elliot's Mike is knocked out cold when bad-guy Paul Dubov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

Even before he wrote The Language of God, Collins was a player in this potentially consequential debate. He has an ongoing dialogue with Chuck Colson, the former Nixon aide who heads the successful Prison Fellowship and influences a significant conservative Christian audience through a daily radio show and a magazine column. Thus far Collins has failed to convince Colson, who says, "I think he's giving away more than he needs to, and he thinks I'm denying science." But Colson adds, "He's a guy I like, admire and appreciate. We're going to have dinner together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconciling God and Science | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

When Astaire, in Swing Time, performed the Bojangles of Harlem number, he was paying tribute to Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, tap master extraordinaire and the prime exponent of a dance form developed on slave plantations and in vaudeville halls. Three of Robinson's aged contemporaries--Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims--still hoofing in 1979, were the stars of George T. Nierenberg's intimate documentary about a challenge dance at a Harlem nightclub. Their story is poignant, their dexterity poetic, their legacy immense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 DVDs Show How Divine and Dramatic Dance Can Be | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have been debating whether the brain drain at the FBI poses a threat to national security. "The FBI cannot be a revolving door for senior managers," says Senator Chuck Grassley. "It needs stability in these important positions to fight in the war on terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Exodus of Agents | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

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