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...that $30 you spend on tickets and popcorn at Spider-Man 3 this weekend seems expensive, consider the checks the producers were writing. Studios are notoriously coy about the budgets for their films - maybe because it seems gauche to spend the GDP of Micronesia on a fake pirate ship - but it's clear the price tags for a couple of this summer's most anticipated movies, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, will hover in the $260-$300 million range, not including the marketing costs. To put it in perspective, the most expensive film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Spider-Man Worth $300 Million? | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...Asked several times about whether Alberto Gonzales should resign, McCain was coy on Wednesday: "Ask me tomorrow," he said, grinning, clearly implying that tomorrow, he'd make some news by calling for the Attorney General's resignation. Reporters nudged each other, happy to be in on the joke. But why not now just tell us now, we asked. "I don't want to step on the story," he said. And then, he did. Hours later reporters learned that McCain had, literally, hopped off the Straight Talk Express to talk to noted White House correspondent Larry King, with whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Media Mob Bites Back | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...uncomfortable. Try and be positive around him.’ And then you see Will, and...the guy seems to get a kick out of doing it. Maybe it’s me projecting my own personal feelings onto Will,” he adds.Wilson remains coy about the possibility of an ‘Old School’ sequel, addressing both the obstacles and the opportunities that would be involved in the project...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Luke Wilson Trades ‘Old School’ Charms for Serious Thriller | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...side ponytail.” If I don’t do this, my boyfriend will leave me. My only comfort in the whole affair is that—according to this month’s Cosmo Quiz—I’m a “coy seductress... Thanks to clothes that bare just enough to tantalize and your A-plus flirting skills, you give a vixenish coming attraction, not a vampy all-access pass...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Pour That Girl A Drink Already | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...have to look too far to see why people looked down on Smith. In fact, you need only look precisely where she wanted you to: at the double-D twin attention rockets that helped blast her to stardom. (In life Smith was coy about the specifics of her plastic surgery--its existence confirmed, grimly, by the medical examiner after her death--even if she was not shy about displaying the results.) We have a Puritan suspicion of people who improve on what nature gave them. FX's Nip/Tuck both glamorizes and moralizes about plastic surgery. Last year Hillary Clinton dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Anna | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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