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...Buffett emerges clean, as many believe he will, the concept of a revered, trust-me CEO is RIP. For decades, Wall Street prized corporate leaders who could dip into their financial black box and deliver steady, no-surprise earnings, even if investors had no idea precisely how those magic numbers were reached. That changed after dazzling bookkeeping (later found to be fraud) at Enron and WorldCom led to the destruction of billions of dollars of wealth. In today's regulatory climate, uncanny consistency invites scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffett's Balancing Act | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...performers. Among the supporting players, I like Dolly Sharp, who has some screen presence as Linda's friend and confidante. As a man gives her cunnilingus, she nonchalantly lights up, then asks, "Mind if I smoke while you're eating?" He laps away, and the perky song "Great Big Magic Bubbles" is heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...like to invite friends to set," says Singer of why he agreed to do bluetights.net "It exposes the amazing technical and sometimes emotional theater that's involved in making films of this type." But is there such a thing as too much information? Does it deplete the movie's magic? On the Superman Returns blog, we see Stephan Bender as young Superman, working in the flying harness and trying to keep his dignity intact, not to mention other sensitive parts of his anatomy. "Nothing's comfortable," the stunt coordinator admits. If you ever believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Dear Diary: Action! | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...These guys could always play volleyball,” Ridolfi said. “There was no magic pill or anything like that. I happened to hit them at a time when we have good senior leadership and strong underclassmen...

Author: By Elyse N. Hanson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Volleyball Has New Leadership, Life | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...danger, if this trend continues, is that people will withdraw within their walled communities and never venture again into the Internet's public spaces. It's a process similar to the one that created the suburbs and replaced the great cities with shopping malls and urban sprawl. The magic of the Net is that it thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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