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...crack a smile, and to crack up the audience with a joke, a silly song or his elastic, eloquent body English. Lately, though, the most reliable box-office magnet in Hollywood hasn't given himself or his fans much to laugh at. He was a tough, emotionally constipated cop chasing androids in I, Robot, and an ambitious man who loses his job, his home and his wife - everything but his young son - in The Pursuit of Happyness. Except for a romantic holiday in Hitch, the one-time Fresh Prince has become a stolid, solitary warrior in a gulag of gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Smith Gets Lost in His Legend | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...they were bombed to keep people from getting out or in), the whole idea of the most congested U.S. city utterly abandoned, as if everyone had finally moved to the Sunbelt or the Hamptons. I admire, and share, the movie's extended interest in Neville's daily ritual as cop (hunting down the vampire-like infectees), woodsman (looking for animals that will put fresh meat on his table) and lonely guy (setting up a table each day at noon in case any undead survivor has heard his signal). Smith, whatever mood he's inhabiting, is a watchable actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Smith Gets Lost in His Legend | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Golden Age) and Bob Dylan (I'm Not There). Unfortunate omission: Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the much-lauded French film about a magazine editor who suffers a stroke and is able to move only one eye. The Globers also ignored Crowe's real-life cop in Am Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Globes Atone for the Critics | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...arguable the UC doesn’t have the power to do anything substantive and, instead, that we have to be realistic. But “being realistic” is not something Harvard students should readily accept. “Being realistic” is a cop-out. Only by pressuring the administration to do something “unrealistic” can change actually occur. Most people here care about the UC. People swear the UC doesn’t matter, yet countless numbers of people end up writing editorials about it. We want it to make...

Author: By Derek Flanzraich | Title: Why We Didn’t Care Any More | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...which summarizes the machine’s computer flaws. Computer errors would never be that simple. 6. When TIME Magazine crowns Robin Williams’s character “Man of the Year.” Hey, it’s less of a cop-out than 2006’s “You” cover...

Author: By Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: "Man of the Year" | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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