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...fetus as a "sea monkey"). The movie was written, in one of those only-in-Hollywood scenarios, by the equally idiosyncratic Diablo Cody after a talent manager stumbled across her blog and got her a deal. Garner and Jason Bateman play the potential parents, but it's Juno's dad (J.K. Simmons) and stepmom (Allison Janney) who steal the show. This is not the first movie this year in which people get pregnant and then find out how they feel about each other, but it could be the most humane.n

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Roundup | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

Most adolescents worry about acne and raging hormones. At 15, Joe Nuxhall had to worry about a stadium full of fans urging him--as a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds--to thwart the St. Louis Cardinals. During a 1944 game, the Ohio teen--whose local-league dad had recommended him to the Reds when the team was depleted by World War II--stepped up and earned two outs before losing his cool. He didn't pitch again for the team for eight years, but Nuxhall, who in recent years was the radio-broadcast voice of the Reds, had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...family was so renowned for its makeup skills, it was selected in June to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There were Dad, a makeup guru on Gone With the Wind; Grandfather, who started the first-ever studio makeup department; five makeup-artist uncles; and himself. Over 50 years, Monty Westmore lent his touch to 100 movies, including The Late Shift (for which he created doppelgängers for David Letterman and Jay Leno and scored an Emmy nomination) and Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Hook, the latter nabbing Westmore an Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...What's our son's phone number?'" For a moment over lunch, Martin clutches his chest--a dramatic display of emotion for this very inward man who may, at heart, be the kid who stayed all day at Disneyland rather than pedal home to spend time with his dad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...horribly awry.“It looks like something that you’d get in Tiger Cubs when you’re real small,” junior wideout Elliot Lauzen said.“It was the kind of shirt I might send home to mom and dad for a dustrag,” Breaux said. “On the front, they had a picture of a wolf, not a dog. On the sleeves, they have these puma or tiger paws ironed on, on the back there’s no punctuation...it?...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leader of 'Washboard Whatups' Leads Ivies in Funny | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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