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This being a Stephen King story, there must be psychics: four kids touched with a gift that's a curse--think Carrie plus Stand by Me. Twenty years on, the four (Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant and Lee), with the help of their strange pal Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), are battling the leechy invaders. "Be a good boy," Duddits' mom tells him. "Now, go save the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Hazards of Tooth Picking | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...current trend began with the teaming of Jackie Chan and comic Chris Tucker for 1998's Rush Hour. That amiable caper took in $141 million at the North American box office, and its 2001 sequel did even better: $226 million. Hollywood needed no further goading. It paired Jackie's pal Sammo Hung with Arsenio Hall for the TV drama Martial Law, which had a healthy two-year run. And it has put Jet Li, the little dynamo from Beijing, in the company of rappers: Aaliyah in the 2000 hit Romeo Must Die and now DMX in Cradle 2 the Grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...seen Al go very far off course. He's a pretty steady pilot." He had to be, considering that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

...that after a shopping spree late last October in Brampton, a city west of Toronto. The owners of a shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police. A raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials, and stacks of high-grade fake passports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadows in Our Midst | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Cowboys | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

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