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...Mystery Science Theater 3000 Cable's first and coolest nerd-genius hit, MST3K elevated a derisory premise?a guy and two robots riff on cheesy movies???into glorious comic art. This 20th anniversary edition contains four episodes (the best: Werewolf) and enough goofy extras to make any MSTie mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Ever since George Clooney dropped by Belstaff's Rome showroom in 2001, the company, known for its rough-and-tumble motorcycle jackets, has experienced quite a renaissance. Featured in dozens of big-budget movies???Tom Cruise had more than 80 Belstaff jackets on set while filming Mission: Impossible III, and Leonardo DiCaprio said his helped him prepare for The Aviator?the brand has developed a clientele that includes everyone from Hollywood A listers to the Dalai Lama. A true leader of the pack, Belstaff has been in business since 1924, when the British company broke new ground with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Road Ready | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

There's no nice way to say it: movies??love murderers. Producers may claim the killer's story is a cautionary tale, but they revel--along with the villain and the audience--in the sick grandeur of a hit man, a supervillain, a serial killer. Movies used to show what the audience wanted to be. Then Norman Bates came along, and Freddy and Jason, and Hannibal Lecter, to prove that we also wanted to see what we feared. The psycho creeps toward his victim; we can't watch, and we can't turn away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Anatomy of a Manhunt | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

Beatty followed Splendor with a string of movies???The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, All Fall Down, Lilith?that turned out to be disappointments, but enlarged Beatty's image. Along the way, he earned a reputation for being hard on directors. "If the director was indecisive, Warren would absolutely destroy him," says Robert Towne. "He'd ask so many questions?and he can ask more questions than any three-year-old?that the director didn't know whether he was coming or going. I think Warren's drive to be a producer was that he feared he would get into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Beatty Strikes Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...whole purpose of his cosmic conglomerate, Lucas says, is to make money so that he and his friends can escape the tyranny of the studios and make good movies???or at least the kind of movies they like. He was traumatized by his experience with American Graffiti, where Universal arbitrarily cut five minutes from his finished version of the film. He vows that it will never happen again. "It wasn't a film by Lucas," he says bitterly. "It was a film made by me with changes by the studio. That isn't fair." One of the first jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: George Lucas' Galactic Empire | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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