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...Open, he promises), sleeveless shirts that show off biceps that bulge like the Pyrenees, and hit-and-grunt technique, Nadal is the loudest player on tour. "He's like the bulls running down the street in [Pamplona]," says Bollettieri. "The bulls are going to run over every goddam thing--houses, anything." Another Nadal trademark is the leaping fist-pump; he leaves no emotion in the locker room. "This is who I am," he says. "I do what comes at the moment. It's nothing prepared." Nadal favors the power game, but his speed separates him from the pack, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Duel to Fuel Tennis | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...lingering near him), Jackson is unafraid to get vocal. "The majority of producers and directors do maybe 12 movies in their careers," Jackson says. "I've done over 100 already. I've got a pretty good idea of what audiences want, and when my character dies for no goddam reason"--as has happened more times than he can count--"or we pull punches on the action, or the thing just doesn't make logical sense ..." He stops there in frustration, but Jackson has been known to bring a little bit of Shaft-like menace to the set. David Ellis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Own Best Fan | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...walked onto the Debussy stage, flanked by Reeves and Downey, Linklater wanted the audience to know that Scanner was, among other things, a comedy. Yet the movie never matched the onstage raillery of Downey, who grabbed the mike and announced, "Would the person with the Peugeot please move your goddam car? You're blocking traffic on the Croisette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X-Men, Keanu and Other Mutants | 5/26/2006 | See Source »

...bellhops and other cheap purposes. "After that, I couldn't help but smile at the Super Bowl," says Dryer, 39, for whom acting has become a profession. He plays Police Detective Hunter on television. "When all the over-coaching, overpreparing and overwriting is done, the Super Bowl is a goddam game. We played well. I let the event in completely and enjoyed the whole thing tremendously. The loss was gone the second I walked out of the stadium." Vacating football was more complicated, like dropping a longstanding character. "To put it aside," says Dryer, "you almost have to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life's Not a Bowl Of Any Single Thing | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...revenge was taken. Bette Davis is still alive and ticking. B. (for Barbara) D. (for Davis) Hyman declares that the front door is always open to her estranged mother. But only a masochist would enter after the appearance of this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour your soul." No defect goes uncharted, from the star's alcoholism to violent maledictions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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