Word: humanation
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...proverbial celebrity who finds it lonely at the top, and who is wary of any new person who wants in, including Ira (whom Rogen invests with a cuddly-toy irresistibility). "You're not my friend," he tells Ira. "You work for me." George wants a last chance at human connection, in the person of Laura. And that's where Funny People spins off the rails. (See TIME's photos: "Judd Apatow's War on Jay Leno...
...People; indeed, its two-part structure is Terms of Endearment in reverse, with the deadly disease coming before the lovey stuff. (Sandler even did a Jim Brooks film; unfortunately, it was that rare Brooks misfire, Spanglish.) And where Brooks' stories are usually about the fine line of ethics in human relationships - does a newsman fake a tear in an interview? Does a production assistant lie about her boyfriend to her producer? - this one is about whether a man who says he needs love really deserves it. And (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT) the big ethical question is whether a hardened comedian will...
...Apatow if he sees himself having a career like those of two filmmakers known for the dramedy mode - Woody Allen and James L. Brooks, who made Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News - he gets way more excited about the Brooks comparison. "Woody Allen isn't very hopeful about human beings," he says. "Jim Brooks is hopeful. He likes people." (See pictures of movie costumes...
...Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist group that was given sanctuary by Saddam. "It was a straightforward swap: your terrorists for ours," says a Western intelligence official familiar with Tehran's offer. The official says the offer included assurances that the MEK operatives would not be tortured and that international human-rights organizations would have access to them. "They said, 'We'll let the Red Cross or Amnesty [International] monitor the MEK prisoners, and we won't put them into some Guantánamo-like prison,' " says the official...
...sharply divided the population here between the dwindling numbers who defiantly still head to the streets and the vast majority who watch from the sidelines. Among the demonstrators, by now whittled to mostly students or recent graduates and those living on modest incomes, there are frequent mentions of democracy, human rights, the release of political prisoners, even the overthrow of the entire regime. But taken as a whole, it is hard to tell what their objectives are, particularly since the opposition transcends thwarted presidential contender Mir-Hossein Mousavi's Green Movement platform. The question remains: What exactly will they...