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...them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program in a new direction," he wrote. "I will no longer be associated with it." Ebert's announcement arrived only hours after co-host Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times - his on-air companion since 1999 - announced that he too would be leaving At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper; his last weekend on the show will reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Ebert: The Final Thumb? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...last moment by Eisenhower) to relieve the ill-fated French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Subsequent postings took him to Beirut, as well as ambassadorships in Zaire, Somalia and Pakistan. His dead-serious demeanor, reflected in his craggy, Lincolnesque features, makes Oakley a poor companion for swapping jokes or, as one old friend put it, ''having him over to the house to get drunk in front of the fire.'' But such intensity has endeared him to colleagues, even those who received wake-up calls alerting them to overnight cables and demanding to know what should be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OAKLEY'S GAMBIT | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...played out his string with the Pentagon, what with all the base closings and the gay controversy. So what if there are Americans unaccounted for? There are 300,000 Vietnamese missing. Let's get on with commerce. We're talking 69 million consumers here. And besides, said my companion Dave, who should know, just put it out of your mind that there are any old American soldiers presently living in these parts under duress. Dave spent two years as a prisoner of war. He says there wouldn't be a POW alive, living the way he had to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURFING INTO THE MELANCHOLY PAST | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...members of the group boosted the others to the top. It was no easy transit. One young woman froze in fear, a leg on either side of the fence, her face a mask of panic as she looked at the long fall into one country or the other. Her companions quickly and efficiently coaxed her over. Then the little boy--who wore a knockoff New York Yankees cap--went over, dangling by his hands from the top and dropping bravely into waiting arms. The old woman glared at us as a companion pushed her back up the fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Burtt is an audio Audubon. Much of his recording is done "on location"--in zoos, his driveway or (lots of this in WALL?E) a junkyard. The chirps needed for WALL?E's cockroach companion were provided by "a raccoon, speeded up," and the insect's clicks came from the sound of locking handcuffs. "I was recording a policeman's Taser," Burtt recalls, "and I said, 'Let me hear your handcuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL-E: Pixar's Biggest Gamble | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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