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Before he survived the crash, Ollestad had to survive his childhood. His father was a dashing adventurer who pushed his son to feats of preadolescent derring-do as a surfer and skier that are unimaginable by today's nurturing parental standards. It may have been his familiarity with physical danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crash Course | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

A friend's 6-year-old recently started primary school in Istanbul. By the second week, his favorite superhero, Spider-Man, had been supplanted by a flesh-and-blood mortal who died 70 years ago: Mustafa Kemal, better known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. The boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Turkish Film Draws Fire for Its Portrait of Atatürk | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

To meet the action-movie fan halfway, Body of Lies punctuates its chatter and derring-do with explosions. At first the shock is salutary and, in movie terms, socko. But as the bombings mount, they become routine, expected, like the dance numbers in an Astaire-Rogers musical. Indeed, nothing happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

You see? You can relate the movie's main plot, concocted by writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, without mentioning the Anglos: Rick, his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello, sporting an English accent of varying plumminess) and their grown son Alex (Luke Ford). After their last escapade, Rick and Evelyn have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Revives The Mummy | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

A few early reviews have criticized Wanted for being derivative of The Matrix. (For what it's worth, Millar says he dreamed up the story when he was a kid.) But the notion of an ordinary, frustrated young person who discovers special powers in strange surroundings is as old as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Jolie! Wanted Delivers | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

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