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...Equivalent of Mug Shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 2002 | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...notion of collecting mug shots of potential criminals has sparked comparisons to the futuristic thriller Minority Report, in which a fictional high-tech police unit identifies criminals before they commit crimes, an analogy that Szczerba says is laughable. He adds that it is "highly improbable" that innocent people were caught up in the sweeps. But police statistics show that nearly 20% of the more than 600 people detained thus far were not charged with any offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop! And Say Cheese | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...kill me, the director saw something in my face that made him change his mind." He saw an innocent kid who provided a means of adding a sympathetic layer to The Bride's ruthless character. "I thought, 'There's no way she'd off a kid with a mug like this,'" says Tarantino, cuffing Hu on the shoulder. So he devised a new ending for the scene. Hu becomes the last man standing at the massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood Sport | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...Jiang has every reason to be exhausted. He's a notoriously choosy actor who usually appears in just one movie a year, yet his brooding mug will flicker through five films in the next 12 months. Missing Gun?a fast-paced crime flick about a small town cop whose frantic search for his stolen pistol unearths a web of provincial vice?is Jiang's first appearance in a film since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in Action | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...planned to use a rubber dinghy packed with explosives to attack U.S. Navy vessels passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. The reason you're probably only faintly aware, if aware at all, of the foiled Morocco plot is that the U.S. media has been dominated this week by a mug-shot of former Chicago gangbanger Padilla, and talk of "dirty bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Jose Padilla | 6/14/2002 | See Source »

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