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...three movies bunched near the top, here was a winner that won't be overturned in the recount. It earned $34.1 million, according to early studio estimates, and beat out the second-place finisher, The Hangover, by more than $7 million, and the weekend's other new movie, the Jack Black-Michael Cera prehistoric comedy Year One, by about $14 million. Bullock's first No. 1 movie in a decade (since Forces of Nature), it nearly doubled her previous personal-best opening (the 2007 Premonition, at $17.6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Bully for Bullock | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

Thanks for Joe Klein's "Gates Unbound," on Secretary Robert Gates [June 8]. Finally, someone who is putting the troops first. Jack Quartaroli, SACRAMENTO, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...although this time in a Spinal Tap wig and caveman furs, Cera can't stop Year One from being a bad movie, but he does save it from being a catastrophe. He plays Oh, an inept gatherer who is best friends with an even more inept hunter named Zed (Jack Black). They're kicked out of their village - the wisest act committed in that community since the decision to rub two sticks together - and proceed to travel through a greatest hits of early religious history, culminating in a trip to Sodom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year One: Jokes from the Stone Age | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...challenge. Reid defeated Ensign by fewer than 500 votes in a bitter campaign that cost both sides more than $8 million. Won a Senate seat easily on his second attempt in 2000, and fought off a long-shot bid by former President Jimmy Carter's son Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator John Ensign: 'I Had an Affair' | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...When Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone founded Twitter in 2006, they were probably worried about things like making money and protecting people's privacy and drunk college kids breaking up with one another in 140 characters or less. What they weren't worried about was being suppressed by the Iranian government. But in the networked, surreally flattened world of social media, those things aren't as far apart as they used to be - and what began as a toy for online flirtation is suddenly being put to much more serious uses. After the election in Iran, cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

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