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...cheerleader at Ole Miss, Leigh Anne met her future husband, Sean Tuohy, a basketball star (and now a commentator for the Memphis Grizzlies) who inherited his father's chain of fast-food restaurants. The movie's Sean, nicely played by Tim McGraw, is a smart, amiable fellow who knows to keep out of the way of the family's driving force. Leigh Anne has made herself an interior decorator of the, shall we say, gaudier persuasion; her home, which is bigger than Tara, boasts bedroom pillows that are a riot of checks, stripes and leopard-skin patterns. Her personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...soft boulder up the hill of achievement. Checking his school records, she sees he got a 98 in "protective instincts." Why not have him protect the quarterback on the school's lackluster football team? If he turns out to be good at it, maybe he'll go to Ole Miss. She invites him to move into Casa Tuohy, assigns her mouthy son S.J. (Jae Head) to monitor Michael's exercise regimen, hires a tutor (Kathy Bates) to help him raise his grade-point average and hectors the team's clueless coach (Ray McKinnon), instructing him in the finer points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...work with); a drug lord and his posse who try to derail Michael from his destiny; and a buppie lawyer from the NCAA who investigates a charge that the Tuohys have unfairly steered Michael, who's finally a much-recruited high school star, into the Ole Miss football program. These characters are either lost, evil or suspicious. It's as if blackness were a plague and adoption by whites the only cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...some strange reason, the “new” issue is for October 2009. What happened Grzecki? It’s December. If you miss your deadline you should at least change the date...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...independent Institute for the Study of War, argues that the Obama Administration needs to embrace McChrystal's goal. "There's a significant psychological effect on the Taliban if we announce we're going to build an Afghan security force of 400,000," says Dubik. "We're going to miss that opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out: How to Grow the Afghan Army | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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