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Not so, as far as I'm concerned. I'm like some bizarro opera fan who comes for the plot and heads for the bar when the aria commences. My latest struggle with Morpheus (whose embrace, I did manage to avoid) occurred at The Incredible Hulk. You know who he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hulk: Big, Green, Sleep-Inducing | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Odinga also blamed the continent's ethnic conflicts on the "mediocrity of African leadership." Even the mild-mannered President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, struck a sharp note, hitting out at the practice, still widespread among African men, of taking multiple wives and siring hordes of children. Jacob Zuma, tipped to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Leadership Crisis | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

Very simply, The Zohan fakes his own death at the hands of his arch-enemy, The Phantom, a Palestinian terrorist (a devoutly nasty John Turturro), ships himself to New York in an airplane's cargo hold, which he shares with two dogs named Scrappy and Coco, whom he puts to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zohan: Laff Scuffle, Not Laff Riot | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

The name evokes a heavyweight political bruiser just by its sound, but Biffo is also an acronym: it stands for Big Ignorant F*** From Offaly, the county in the Irish midlands where Cowen was born and which he still represents in the country's parliament. The moniker isn't meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's New PM Offers Plain Talking | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

When called by Congress to testify about his early membership in the Communist Party, Dassin skipped to London, where Fox production chief Darryl Zanuck let him shoot the Brit-noir Night and the City. It stars Richard Widmark (who died, also in his 90s, a week before Dassin) as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

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