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...Mistress. Novelist and filmmaker Catherine Breillat became notorious with four movies - Romance, Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell - that put young women in states of bondage or virginal peril without making them seem victims, and with an attention to sexual realism that verged on hard-core. Breillat suffered a cerebral hemmorage a while back; that hasn't stopped her career but it has slightly softened her tone. An Old Mistress, based on a 19th century novel by Jules-Am?d?e Barbey d'Aurevilly, is the director's first period film; she wants to see what's under those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Men and Mad Women | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...movie in a friendly town (Vegas, Chicago) or familiar genre (caper, Western, gangster movie) and apply to it a bit of the ad-lib roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script, performances and production was meant to reflect the informal, what-the-hell, let's-pretend-we're-having-a-ball impulse that led to their making. These were movies that loosened the tuxedo tie and the tongue to provide an intoxicated if not intoxicating diversion. They were loosy-goosy for the time, and instantly irrelevant. Marijuana would soon replace alcohol as the younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean's Thirteen: Dead in the Water | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

When Starcevich went back to the Army in 2005, he specifically requested to be posted with an infantry unit. "I want the nitty-gritty," he told his father. But when he arrived in Baghdad, it was worse than he'd expected. "Hell has an address after all," he wrote to his mom in an e-mail at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Day In Iraq: One Last Message: STARCEVICH, LUCAS | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...really good kid. He has a really good personality. He speaks a totally different language than what we speak. But when you figure it out, he is funny as hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Ortiz | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...military-intelligence unit and civilian contractors working with them told them to "loosen up" men for interrogation. Sabrina Harman, who appears in one photograph grinning behind a pile of naked detainees, told the Washington Post that the MPs were instructed by military-intelligence officers to "make it hell" on the prisoners in order to make them talk. Now facing possible court-martial, Harman is allegedly the one who attached wires to a hooded man's hands and forced him to stand on a box, threatening him with electrocution if he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Scandal's Growing Stain | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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