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...mechanics of Dana's despair and salvation are managed with no special grace by writers Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, and haphazardly directed by Fleming. He's done wan remakes of The In-laws and Nancy Drew, but the film closest to Hamlet 2 was the 1999 comedy Dick, which enlisted a slew of Saturday Night Live veterans (Will Ferrell, Harry Shearer, Ana Gasteyer, Jim Breuer) in the fanciful tale of two girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) who wander off from a White House tour and get entangled with President Nixon. That one sounded funnier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamlet 2: The First One Was Better | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. "I want somebody ... who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now," he said. "I want somebody who is mad right now that people are losing their jobs." And I immediately thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Obama's Passion? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...streets with a sizzling machismo - was a cunning mix of wocka-wocka percussion, soaring violins, a sassy girl group whispering the hero's name as if it were a phallic deity and, anchoring it all, the basso talk-singing of the studly composer. "Who's the black private dick / That's a sex machine to all the chicks?" Girls: "SHAFT!" Hayes: "Ya damn right!" Hayes: "They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother-" Girls: "Shut your mouth!" Hayes: "I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft." Girls: "Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isaac Hayes: From Shaft to Chef | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...There was the smug David Addington, Dick Cheney’s former legal counsel, current chief of staff, and chief architect of the “New Paradigm” that has framed the country’s current approach to counter-terrorism. By his side sat the unctuous John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer whose cherubic grin belies a grim view of human nature...

Author: By Joanna Naples-mitchell | Title: An Inescapable History | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...course, in recent years, the Republican Party has been affiliated with the oil industry. It was the oilman Dick Cheney who dismissed conservation as a mere sign of "personal virtue," not a basis for energy policy. It was the oilman George W. Bush who resisted efforts to regulate carbon emissions. And most congressional Republicans have been even more reliable water carriers for the industry's interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

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