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...Penney, who's keeping a good sense of humor about the whole fiasco, says, "It's not how I imagined launching my directing career." Still, he's since directed a second feature and plans to shoot his third this spring. "I guess you could say I'm failing upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ishtar | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...microgravity environment of space. That Genesis even exists stuns the man behind TransHab's design, former NASA engineer William Schneider, who visits Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas every few weeks to monitor progress on the full-size habitat, set for launch by 2010. "I went to humor him at first, but when I got there, he had built TransHab out of aluminum and had a small-scale [model] inflated," says Schneider. At full size, 45 ft. long and 22 ft. in diameter, it should hold three to six people in a shirtsleeve environment. TransHab launches in a compressed state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Rock Hudson co-hosted in 1973), but it's hard to think offhand of one who could. Lesbians simply don't inspire the kind of social-sexual unease that gay men do. Two chicks kissing is a male fantasy, a sweeps stunt. Two dudes kissing is gross-out humor. It's Sacha Baron Cohen open-mouthing Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. It's a million Brokeback Mountain jokes. It's the Snickers Super Bowl ad, in which two mechanics locked lips while sharing a candy bar. (Or, as Freud might have said, a "candy bar.") Even in post-- Queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yep, She's Mainstream | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...intelligent design in the state’s education standards. He is polite but firm, letting them have their say without hesitating to call them out when it’s ridiculous, and always presenting their words in context.With the evolutionists Olson is a little tougher, and a recurring humor device in the movie is his interrupting their segments to define particularly academic terminology. The only appreciable difference in his treatment of the two sides is that he doesn’t doubt the science behind the evolutionists.Olson spent his entire life studying biology—marine biology, evolutionary biology...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dodo Celebration for Darwin Day | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park” and “Chappelle’s Show,” but we really watch them for the ridiculous and dirty humor that follows. We like our news bundled up with jokes and regurgitated back to us by sardonic pop-culture pundits. We can fall in love on the Internet or fall in bed with a random person at a party, but deep relationships are way too pass?...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinging to the Classics | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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