Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...president and CEO Larry Lucchino famously called the Yankees "the Evil Empire" for spending cash to win World Series after World Series. But with a $143 million payroll, two Series trophies on his mantel and the promise of more to come, Lucchino is no Luke Skywalker...
...possible that Philip Seymour Hoffman may finally have found perfect bliss. He has, of course, been terrific in films ranging from Capote to Mission Impossible 3, but the chance to play perfect evil - a delirious combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...Finney cannot imagine that evil resides so close to home. And Andy cannot imagine that the source of his ultimate undoing is within the family. Stop to think of it and you realize that Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which was written in poisoned ink by Kelly Masterson, is some kind of ultimate answer to the "family values" poppycock that has polluted our socio-political discussions for so many years. But Lumet doesn't give us a lot of time for philosophical musings. This is the 83-year-old director's 45th film, and like all the best...
...account of the recent peaceful protests in Burma [Oct. 22]. As I read it, I thought that perhaps this was the country Vice President Dick Cheney was thinking about when he said our invading forces would be greeted as liberators. It's a shame that Saddam Hussein was so evil that we had to get rid of him by force. Yet Burma, a country rich in culture and tradition, can only wait for U.N. sanctions that will take a while to go into effect and will only hurt the people instead of the junta the sanctions are aimed at. Kevin...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down