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...Hungarian animator with a 5-min. movie about a cuckoo clock ascends to the stage on Oscar night, you may be tempted to take that post--Jennifer Hudson, pre--Helen Mirren bathroom break. But if you do, you will miss something besides an ecstatic shout-out to Budapest--you'll miss seeing a real Hollywood comeback story, the return of the short film. Thanks to downloadable video and an embrace of the form by some Hollywood heavyweights, something very old-fashioned is happening: people are watching short movies. On cell phones, computers, TVs and--this is really retro--in theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Little Movies Go Big Time | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...clear: Saddam Hussein was a butcher. Kofi Annan claims that the countries of the Middle East are unhappy with the actions of the coalition. Does that include those who have declared that Israel should be wiped off the map? It's time some people got out of cloud-cuckoo-land and into reality. Action, not words, saves lives when terrorism is involved. Millions more would have been saved if we had acted "illegally" toward the Nazi regime in the 1930s. The free world has much to thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair for, and I for one applaud their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Lady of the Left | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...creations of Hollywood, a person who enforces the rules is often the villain. Think of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, or Dean Wormer in Animal House. But in real life, enforcing the rules is actually necessary. So is resisting peer pressure, and learning to speak up in the moment. In real life, you might even have to introduce yourself in person, without first breaking the ice by sending a "MySpace Friend Request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...ELIZABETH CORDAY As Nurse Ratched in a West End production of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Alex Kingston gets a pay and status cut but probably a cuter outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 24, 2006 | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...reach speeds of up to 50 km/h. And if you're after a bit of wildlife to go with your whooping and swooping, head out early in the mornings for the best sightings of baboons, Samago monkeys and the many birds that nest here, including the shy, cuckoo-like knysna loerie, the black-headed oriole and the forest buzzard. Tarzan and Jane never had it so good. treetoptour.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Green Fun | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

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