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...bondage of B-minus musicals, got him hired by a major studio (the major, MGM) and form the bedrock of his current furtive eminence. Higgins had written several Crime Does Not Pay docudrama shorts for MGM in the '30s. And when the police-procedural docudrama became a popular feature-length genre in 1945 with the success of The House on 92nd Street (produced by Louis de Rochemont, who had fashioned miniature versions of the genre for the dramatized newsreel series The March of Time), Higgins jumped in, and Mann was there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Mann | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...ultimate allure is that the phone lets you access Cingular Video. The jewel in CV's crown is the exclusive HBO Mobile, perhaps the first mobile video service to attempt wireless distribution of full-length TV shows. You don?t get the latest episodes of The Wire and The Sopranos for the service's $4.99 per month, but at any given time you do get access to four or five "classics" from the network's various franchises, broken up into easy-to-download chapters. Exciting as it was to catch vintage Entourage, it?s only available if you live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LG CU500 for Cingular | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...seem all the more appropriate. Her single Smile is already as inescapable as the heat, wafting from open windows and workmen's radios alike. [an error occurred while processing this directive] The Bush Hall performance is also 21-year-old Allen's first full-length gig, two streets away from where she grew up in west London. Her album, Alright, Still, could possibly debut at No. 1 this week, too. And like fellow Brits Arctic Monkeys, who similarly seemed to come from nowhere, Allen's popularity was forged online. A handful of free tracks posted on Allen's page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reasons to Be Cheerful | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...seconds Length of the inaugural flight of a one-man, battery-powered aircraft in Tokyo last week, the first flight of its kind 160 Number of conventional AA batteries used to power the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...since more knowledgeable writers have. Start with Collins, the crime novelist (Road to Perdition) who is the Mick's most assiduous champion: he collaborated with Spillane on several anthologies, cast him as a featured player in two movies. Collins directed and co-authored One Lonely Knight, the only book-length study of Spillane. Collins credits Spillane with creating, in Hammer "the template for James Bond, Dirty Harry, Billy Jack, Rambo, John Shaft, and countless other fictional tough guys." (When TIME reviewed Casino Royale, it praised Bond as "Mike Hammer in gentleman's clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

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