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...Evans, but everyone from roadies to relatives calls him the Edge. As U2's guitarist, he's one of the world's most famous rock stars. As co-founder of Music Rising, he has taken a lead role in getting New Orleans musicians back on their feet. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel spoke with the Edge about the beginnings of U2's next album, a couple of songs he wishes his band had written, and what it was like to be a young man with a large head...
...bizarre new film, is secretly a clever exercise on the demerits of neo-noir. (Hillary Swank, I feel, is actually incapable of farce.) “The Black Dahlia” is more mundanely the result of poor directing and a ludicrous script, factors which combine to make Josh Harnett look as if he is going to cry in every scene, not that you could blame...
They meet cute, albeit somewhat bloodily. Bucky (Josh Hartnett) is the baby-faced innocent. Lee (Aaron Eckhart) is the hard case. They're both cops and they're both boxers. They bond while beating one another to pulps in a boxing match for the benefit of a police charity. They become detective-partners and further buddy up in a chaste, yet sexually charged, relationship with a mysteriously damaged woman named Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). Their relationship is sealed (and ultimately undone) by their assignment to the eponymous Black Dahlia case...
...would be inclined to laugh, if one were not so numbed. This movie, which was written by Josh Friedman, is less a response to a novel than it is a synopsis of it-ploddingly plotted, enlivened by the occasional shock occurrence, lacking that attention to mood and nuance which made Curtis Hanson's version of another Ellroy novel, L.A. Confidential, such a rich, rewarding entertainment a few years ago. You begin to wonder: maybe it's time to give film noir a rest. The academics have had their fun with it; no genre has attracted more scholarly attention in recent...
...Cheney has decided to attend the Republicans' weekly policy lunch. But the gentility went out the window around noon Tuesday as the cops grabbed bystanders and pulled them out of the way as they rushed to empty the area not just for Cheney and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, but for a special guest: Lady Margaret Thatcher...