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...having played such a major role in fueling that conflict, the U.S. has not done enough to help the country back onto its feet. Nicaragua may simply be echoing the theme playing out all over Latin America right now, where U.S.-backed capitalist reforms have failed to reverse an epic gap between rich and poor, prompting voters to turn to leftists like Chavez. Seeing little to like in their immediate future, Nicaraguan voters could be poised to turn back the clock...
...golden boy like Beatty would have had the clout and cojones to make a 3-hr. romance about U.S. communist John Reed and his love affair with both Bolshevism and feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Beatty set out to make a great movie and came damn close, finding epic heft in Reed's trek from Greenwich Village to Red Square. On its 25th anniversary, the film looks even better. Jack Nicholson is a sexy standout as Louise's lover Eugene O'Neill...
...Flags cost $55 million to make, plus another $35 to market. That's not a lot for a prestige epic, but it's in the Superman Returns empyrean compared to many horror films. Hostel, for example, was made in the Czech Republic for a pinchpenny $4.5 million and grossed 10 times that in North America alone; its worldwide take was $80 million, and we haven't even got to the video revenue, where horror movies clean...
Last weekend, India celebrated the Hindu holiday of Diwali, the Festival of Lights. It celebrates the triumph of good over evil and remembers, among other things, the return of Lord Rama following his epic and victorious struggle with the demon king Ravana. Grateful followers, the story goes, lit oil lamps to show Rama's way home in the darkness. Perhaps they also whooped and set off loud explosions, because the Festival of Light could just as easily be the Festival of Noise...
...United States themselves," wrote Walt Whitman, "are essentially the greatest poem." That epic is rewritten by each generation but also revised every 11 seconds when a new American enters the population. On the eve of what could be a transformational election, we recently recorded the arrival of the 300 millionth American. The proximity of those two events created the perfect moment to launch what TIME expects will be an annual feature called "America by the Numbers," an illustrated look at who we are as a nation--and where we're going. It is TIME 's first cover story told principally...