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...Administration. That has made Caracas a hot destination for leftist tourists, bolstered Chávez's celebrity cachet--he counts Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte as friends--and made him the most visible Latin leader since Fidel Castro. But his rhetorical excesses, like his antics at the U.N., allow his critics to dismiss him as a buffoonish pretender. It was a sign of how badly his act played in New York City last week that even Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, a harsh critic of Bush's, went out of his way to tell Chávez that "you don't come into...
SCREW CAPS AND GLASS STOPPERS Influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has predicted that by 2015 more wines will be opened with the twist of a wrist than the pull of a cork. Screw caps eliminate the oxidation and taint problems, are simple to open--no corkscrew required!--and reseal easily. After decades of being associated with cheap wine, they're finally overcoming their image problem. New Zealand already closes more than 80% of its wines with screw caps. The French even use them on a few prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies...
...already gotten his chance earlier this month, when he boxed the Spanish film critic known only as "Oso," from the website Cinecutre.com. Boll deftly defeated the oafish Oso, knocking him to the ground several times, though never completely out. At the end of the one-sided fight, Boll said in a prepared statement, "Contrary to what those stupid, weak critics say, I have now proven that my movies are fantastic...
...reason why the Spanish critic survived in the ring was that I felt bad for him," Boll later told TIME, after conceding that there is, in fact, no correlation between his win and the ability to direct a feature film. "I hit him a few times, he went down a few times, but then I felt bad because he was completely defenseless." His other challengers may not be so lucky. So vitriolic are Boll?s feelings towards the content creators at Ain?t it Cool News -a website capable of generating so much Internet buzz about a film that...
...Honestly, I have nothing better to do this weekend," Sneider says of the forthcoming bout. Not all of Boll?s contenders are taking the fight so casually. Chris Alexander, a critic for Rue Morgue Magazine in Toronto, has been training five hours a day for the past three months, and has reportedly been taking tips from punk rocker Alice Cooper and actor Verne "Mini Me" Troyer. Of the four remaining contestants, he is the only one expected to put up any sort of fight. Boll, however, is still cautious: "I have a few disadvantages," he says. "I have...