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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play a misanthrope with a gun, wiping out two teams of bad guys, in Fistful of Dollars. By the time he'd done two more Leone westerns, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Eastwood was a star in the classic Hollywood sense--which is to say he had found a persona that he could comfortably inhabit and that would attract customers in the U.S. and abroad, where they call him "Cleent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Essence of Clint Eastwood | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...likes Take 1, he prints it and goes to the next scene). Hey, it's only a movie. And often--say, Breezy, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, to skim five off the top--they are movies that have the craft and heart of classic Hollywood, without that musty antique odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Essence of Clint Eastwood | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Hilton, Paris •booing of by fellow Hollywood nightclub patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...smile and the best power is love" is typical of the beatific remarks he ventures to anyone within earshot. The conventional explanation for this is that after a horrific near-drowning in the 2004 Asian tsunami, Li experienced a Siddhartha-style bolt of enlightenment and decided to abandon Hollywood venality for a life of good works. It makes great press, and Li does nothing to correct this idea, but the truth, naturally, is more complex. He was walking on a beach in the Maldives with his two small daughters and maid when the tsunami struck. The swells came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...translated into 36 languages, and has sold more than five million books worldwide. Indridason is currently working on his 10th Erlendur novel. The most recent, Arctic Chill, was published in September. An Icelandic movie of Jar City came out in 2006 and a Hollywood producer has already purchased the remake rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Miserable | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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