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...nobody makes a movie without a script, a theme, a setting - but 8-1/2 was a work of great bustle and brio, built around the exhausted, passive Guido (Marcello Mastroianni). Finally, at the point of suicide, Guido has an epiphany: he will put his problems, his job, his life, all his women, into the circus of a movie, with himself as the ringmaster. (See a pictorial celebration of Federico Fellini and his movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

...should all be grateful that there's a movie about a senior citizen, who isn't French or Julie Christie, having a sex life, right? By we, I mean feminists and/or anyone who can check off the yes box for at least two items on the following list: is a victim of divorce or infidelity; a believer in retribution; menopausal; bigger than a size 6; perimenopausal; loves Baldwin's 30 Rock character, Jack Donaghy, more than any TV boss since Lou Grant; has heard of menopause; loves Meryl Streep; or is just generally outraged by how little respect and attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Complicated: But Not Complicated Enough | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...Given the real author's prolific output, the premise hardly seems plausible. As the story line plods through various seedy revelations about India, what really brings it to life are various musings about travel writing that only Theroux - not his stumbling altar-ego, Delfont - could have come up with. "I would never have lived in this wandering way," the author confesses, "if the pleasures had not outweighed the difficulties ... I hadn't chosen my life out of a desire to confront danger but rather because I was lazy and evasive, ducking out or moving on whenever I felt like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Veteran Travel Writer Finds a Muse in Calcutta | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...team believes that the planet—named GJ1214b after the red dwarf star it orbits and 6.5 times the Earth's size—is primarily composed of water and ice but, at roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit, is too hot to sustain life...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRIEF: Harvard Researchers Discover 'Super-Earth' | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...Life in the North wasn't always so rank-and-file. In the early 1900s, Pyongyang was widely known as the "Jerusalem of the East" for its vibrant milieu of Christians. American Protestant missionaries arrived as early as the 1880s (Catholics arrived centuries earlier but the religion didn't catch on as widely), building religious schools and universities across the capital. Later, as Christianity gained popularity, worshippers held group prayers in public every Christmas. But after the Japanese government took control of Korea in 1910, the new administration began suppressing religious gatherings, and by the 1950s, - after the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Christmas Is (Not) Celebrated in North Korea | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

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