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...were surprised that you were able to sneak into the final cut? The best thing we got away with was probably the improv that happens after Will and Danny drink the juice from the "fantasy fruit" that Holly identifies as a possible narcotic. They're lying there in the desert, drunk, and then Danny suddenly started going off on a tangent about how this is just like a Sandals Resort, and he turns and asks Marshall and Chaka how much he'd have to pay them to make out, like it's spring break or something. And then Will went...
...Friday, reimagines the space-time of this alternate universe with an eye toward the absurd. The story still centers on disgraced paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell), but instead of his family he buddies up with scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel) and Will Stanton (Danny McBride), owner of a desert fireworks store. Marshall and Stanton are a bumbling pair; they provoke dinosaurs, overindulge in exotic beverages, and generally make a mess of place. They're the sloppy stars of a profoundly silly movie - and Silberling couldn't be prouder. TIME spoke with him by phone the day before the film...
After a cheek-to-cheek greeting on the tarmac Wednesday, President Barack Obama walked the red carpet with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to the foot of an airport escalator. There, the President paused a fleeting moment in the blistering desert heat, ceding the right of way to his host. But the King would have none of it. So the two men rode together, feet on the same step. The extent to which they're in step on Obama's bigger agenda, including an effort to relaunch the Middle East peace process and repatriate Guantánamo detainees, remains...
...Images of close fraternity between the rulers of the United States and the desert kingdom were evident throughout Riyadh. Along highways and on landmarks, the stars and stripes flapped alongside the green Saudi flag to honor Obama's visit. A graphic logo on Saudi television's coverage of the event depicted Obama and Abdullah in the corner of the screen, their faces nearly touching. (See pictures of Obama in Saudi Arabia...
...once, one of America's closest economic and political allies in the region but also the principle exporter of an austere brand of Islam that has been exploited by jihadists around the world - and also the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers. The Kingdom supported Operation Desert Storm in 1991, in which a U.S. multinational force drove Iraqi invaders out of Kuwait, and its Prince Sultan Air Base served as a command-and-control center for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Saudi Arabia has also championed a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis...