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...know when you joined Twitter how powerful a communication tool it would become? -Jenny Johnson, London I didn't know anything about it when I joined. I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ashton Kutcher | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

Blomkamp pours his clever notions into a familiar mold: a story of extraterrestrials who come to Earth and are treated like outlaws. Sound schizophrenic? Not to Blomkamp, who grew up in South Africa (before moving to Vancouver at 18 to work in special effects) and who knew from boyhood that he wanted to be a filmmaker. "On one side of my mind you have this place with a crazy racial background, and on the other side of my brain you have this science-fiction geek," he says. "And then one day the two just mixed, and I decided I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: District 9: The Summer's Coolest Fantasy Film | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...Storytellers from antiquity knew the power of star-crossed romance, and so did Audrey Niffenegger. Her 2003 best seller The Time Traveler's Wife is so plangent a tale of fatal love, with two adorable people fighting to beat the odds against them, that it's surprising it took six years for it to get to the big screen. Maybe prospective producers were reluctant to buck the prevailing wisdom of a conventional happy ending. Anyway, here is the film version, directed by Robert Schwentke. It's soppy enough to suit the requirements of the weepie genre, and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Traveler's Wife: Love, Death and More Love | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...grew up hooked to Los Angeles’s oldies radio station—K-EARTH 101. By the time I was five, I knew the lyrics to every Motown hit, every Beatles tune, every Supremes single. So, although I have long grown out of my childhood obsession with the 1960s, I couldn’t pass up the Hatch Shell’s free, outdoor concert series, sponsored by Oldies 103.3. And when I found out that on July 25, in the height of summer, the most quintessential So-Cal band would take the stage? Well, it didn?...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: California Girl | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...Pyongyang. I passed through passport control without a hitch and that evening Antoine and I were invited to a lavish dinner followed by karaoke. Two heavily made-up girls crooned as the screens displayed lyrics over images of charging tanks and rapidly firing surface-to-air missiles. I already knew the songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey to North Korea, Part III: NoKo Chocolate Factory | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

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