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Snicker if you will--it's certainly understandable--but ANGELINA JOLIE actually earned the title of goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. While filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie, 26, met former refugees who told her about the UNHCR. When she called requesting information, the organization offered to make her an ambassador on the spot. Rather than immediately accept, Jolie paid her own way to visit Africa, Cambodia and Pakistan to meet relief workers and refugees. Jolie accepted the title last week, and details of her African diary are available on the U.N. website. Besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 2001 | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...nothing else, Thornton at least has considerable experience going for him as a songwriter. But he squanders it all in a profound humorlessness. "Angelina," a solemn ballad presumably inspired by life with Lara Croft, is laughably square in its approach to romance. Chorus: "Angelina/ Can you feel it?/ Watch the angels as they're dancing up above/ Angelina/ What's come between us?/ Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?" "Dark and Mad," and "Your Blue Shadow," dour ruminations set to plodding country, do little to improve the situation. The sense Thornton gives the listener is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Actors Rock | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

Okay, so "American Pie 2: Music from the Motion Picture" does not boast any material likely to join "Lara's Theme" from "Dr. Zhivago" and the overture from "Gone With the Wind" in the pantheon of soundtrack music treasured by successive generations. But the album, released by Universal a week before the movie opened last weekend to the tune of $45 million, bears scrutiny as a document of our age. Considered in combination with the movie, it offers an image of contemporary middle-class teenagers that differs widely from the image presented in the teen movies and music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...Juan Lara was a Latin dancer and singer before being introduced to woodworking. Regarding this work as an essential like food, by 1986 he apprenticed to a cabinetmaker and seven years after toiled in a basement shop. In 1995, he became owner of this storefront showcase and workshop. Letter holders, games, and pencil holders sell for $25. Beds, bookcases, tables, entertainment centers, coat racks, computer desks can be custom ordered in modern or country style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Shopping Bag: A Harlem Stroll | 8/2/2001 | See Source »

...should I say “freakdance.” He then produced a “picture” of his ideal woman that he had drawn; it featured a topless homegirl with Jessica-Rabbit-style hair seductively covering one eye and a chest as believable as Lara Croft’s. Ah, the joys of community service...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Waiting for Prince Charming | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

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