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...sacrifice--to being a monarch," Mirren says. Elizabeth II has seen Elizabeth I, Mirren says. At a dinner party, the Queen told one of the mini-series' producers she enjoyed the program, so the producer offered to send a DVD. "The Queen said, 'Oh, we don't do DVDs. A video would be fine,'" Mirren says. We guess people who live in castles aren't early adapters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 10, 2006 | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

SCENE IT? SQUABBLE Games with DVDs are coming on strong. After watching clips, you call out answers to onscreen questions. Scene It? sold 5 million copies in 2005, and now there are editions devoted to music, TV and even Harry Potter. The newest twist, Squabble, is billed as a battle of the sexes, but the original Scene It? movie version is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Monopoly | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...Chinese housewives buying genuine American DVDs at a Wal-Mart in Shanghai is about as close to trade nirvana as it gets for the U.S. these days. If there were more?lots more?Chinese with Wu's buying habits, the strident anti-China rhetoric coming from Washington could be dismissed as election-year political theater, rather than portents of a potentially damaging rupture in the commercial relations between the two countries. Simply put, China sells far more stuff to the U.S.?more than $200 billion last year?than the U.S. sells to China, a situation economists (and many politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind The Gap | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...work that way, it?s simply going to be, the theater?s going to have to do a lot of work and spend a lot of money, they?re going to be competing with day and date, and that?s inevitable. It doesn?t have anything to do with DVDs, it has to do with online. So eventually it?ll all be online, eventually it?ll all just be downloaded into a server, and it will be cheap so that they can compete with-that?s the only way you?re going to beat pirates, that is the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with George Lucas | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...called pimpumentaries vary in quality from mainstream productions like the Hughes Brothers ("Menace II Society") film "American Pimp," which was nominated for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, to roughly edited DVDs available online like "Really Really Pimpin' in da South," which was released last year. Brent Owens, the director of several films on prostitution for HBO including "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," says he makes such films to "shed light on a subculture"and is "not condoning it or glorifying it." Nonetheless, Las Vegas vice detective Aaron Stanton says that every juvenile victim he has interviewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Pimp Films Too Instructive? | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

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