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...That's right, there are two. There is, of course, the Angkor Wat that has graced a million postcards, with its soaring stone towers, its lily-strewn moat, its bas-reliefs and labyrinths, its babel of tourists and silky-tongued touts who can con you in five languages. And then there's the Angkor Wat in Dy Proeung's front yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour: Stone Temple Pilot | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...shows were Bruckheimerian, Ross Geller's brains would have been splattered all over that giant Friends apartment by season two. But somehow Bruckheimer, the most successful producer in film history, with $12.5 billion in worldwide box-office receipts from movies such as Top Gun, Armageddon and Con Air, is on his way to becoming the most successful producer in the history of TV. He's the first to have three shows hit the Top 10 simultaneously: CBS's CSI, CSI: Miami and Without a Trace. And he has done it with shockingly few large-scale weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Bruckheimer: TV's Top Gun | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...movie image of the Mob boss as a menacing, broad-shouldered man's man takes a hit in the new thriller Confidence, in which DUSTIN HOFFMAN portrays a quirky crime king of questionable sexuality. Hoffman's character, the King, hires a con man played by Ed Burns to perform a complex heist. "[The director, writer and I] tried to figure out how I could achieve this sense of a frightening character," Hoffman says, "and the idea of sexual ambiguity intrigued me." Hoffman also took some inspiration from choreographer Bob Fosse, with whom he worked on 1974's Lenny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 2003 | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...more ostentatious tier of criminality in this picture.  To up the fim’stension level, he’s stocked his cast with actors blessed with a talent for quiet rage—notably, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia and Ed Burns.  Burns is the con man who runs afoul of Hoffman’s unsettlingly short crime boss.  Rachel Weisz also stars as “The Bait,” according to the film’s poster; Luis Guzman, Harvard alum Donal F. Logue ’88 and Yale alum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 25-May 1 | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...review) but instead I was pleasantly surprised at how open the judges were to the strengths of such material. Both ended up with a Best Graphic Album - New nomination. The nominees will now be voted on by industry professionals and the winners announced at the San Diego Comic-Con in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...Just to be Nominated | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

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