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...edokko, the natives of Tokyo, have a special gift: an ability to push the envelope, to innovate, to pioneer. That was certainly true of Shu Uemura, who went from being the only man in his Tokyo beauty school class to Hollywood makeup legend to international entrepreneur. In convention-worshiping Japan, he defied convention - and made his name and fortune by doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Uemura, Makeup Pioneer, Dies | 1/8/2008 | See Source »

...Erenzo and Brian Lee keep a still at their Hudson Valley granary and use it to concoct a corn bourbon with a smooth creamy flavor and sweet grainy aroma that would make any moonshiner proud. But what Erenzo and Lee are making isn't the illegal stuff of mountain legend and bootlegger capers; instead it's high-class hooch that is totally legal and helping lead a renaissance of handcrafted artisanal American spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Spirits | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...laugh, for the right wing, is that nobody went to see these movies. In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Redacted - together, in their entire theatrical runs, they earned only about what Will Smith's I Am Legend did on one day last weekend. Even if you throw in Jamie Foxx's Saudi Arabia-set action epic The Kingdom, the total box office take of the war-on-terror films doesn't match the earnings of, say, Fahrenheit 9/11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Charlie Wilson, War Is Swell | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...closest visually to Sweeney Todd is Sleepy Hollow, the 1999 fable about innocence trapped inside malevolence. The desaturated color scheme of that film, set in 18th century New York City, is here applied to the streets of London a few decades later. But whereas Burton bent an old legend to comic-horror ends, this time he's not kidding. The shadows aren't faux-ominous, they are expressions of the city's pestilence of selfishness and cruelty, where the motives of virtually everyone - both lowlife and high-born - are venal and verminous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeney Todd: Horror and Humanity | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...Dewey Cox Story,” he wants to make us sing. In “Walk Hard,” Reilly shows off his musical talents for the first time since 2002’s “Chicago,” playing fictional rock-and-roll legend Dewey Cox, a spoof on any number of legendary music icons. “I fell in love with this character and all of the phases of his life,” says Reilly. “My favorite thing about playing Dewey was getting to be a rock star...

Author: By Erinn V. Westbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex-Mr. Cellophane Takes on Colorful Role in ‘Walk Hard’ | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

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