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...With a flick of the wrist, your deadly enemy is demolished and you're in an indisputable position of power. But wait! Your opponent counterstrikes--and the chase is on again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Check Mates | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...connection. "[Riggs] was a scrappy individualist, just like Billie," says Anderson. "They were both working class, both rebels, both big mouths. They needed each other." A less heavy hand might have made Billie world class, but this is still a refreshing work that sends the conventions of the network flick to the showers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Center-Court Sideshow | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, about a chess prodigy, also inspires. Although Bruce Pandolfini, one of the most experienced chess teachers in the world (played by Ben Kingsley in the movie), concedes that the flick may have given chess a boost, he points out that the game would never last without the deep satisfaction it can deliver. "If you find something you're good in, it explodes across your whole life," he explains. "You feel that if you're good at one thing, you can be good at almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Check Mates | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...right, first things first. The man behind Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn decides to make a kiddie flick. Have you gone soft on us or what...

Author: By William Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Chat with Robert Rodriguez | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...Reel Nasty How About Bill Clinton in American Pie II? Britain's ruling labour party, gearing up for a possible general election in may, has produced a campaign video based on the 1976 horror flick The Omen. The short, Economic Disaster II, depicts Tory leader William Hague as the offspring of an Antichrist played by Margaret Thacher. The tagline: "They forgot one thing?there was a son." Elections are looming elsewhere?and the world's film archives are filled with potential spoof material. JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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