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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talk about the Dangerfieldianism of animation: this movie opened in no theaters; Paramount financed Queer Duck, then denied it a theatrical release and dumped it in video stores. Search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats! Poo! Duck! | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...Cruise. But Smith wants to graze freely among genres and rarely makes action pictures. Cruise has made more than a dozen films that grossed at least $100 million in North America, and usually much more worldwide, but his high price tag and off-putting offscreen antics led Paramount, his home studio, to sever relations last year. In addition to the dearth of action stars, there's the zeitgeist to contend with: in internationally edgy times, intimate comedy gives an audience more comfort than blow-up-the-world melodrama. So it's out with the musclemen, in with the funnymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians' Little Secret | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...presents, after four toilsome years, its illustrious graduating class. They have been equipped with the keen ethical and intellectual insight to answer the Harvard call of duty: “Depart to serve better thy country and they kind.” Harvard is, and has long been, a paramount institution. Its graduates are the enlightened; they are the light bearers and the promised leaders of tomorrow. This is why the events of May 12 should never have happened...

Author: By Bryan C. Barnhill, Anjelica M. Kelly, and Sarah Lockridge-steckel | Title: Shifting the Race Debate | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...fact, the strongest moments in Shrek the Third come when it steps back from the frantic pop-culture name dropping of Shrek 2 and you realize that its Grimm parodies have become fleshed-out characters in their own right. In August, Paramount releases Stardust, an adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel about a nerdy 19th century lad who ventures from England to a magical land to retrieve a fallen star. The live-action movie covers many of the same themes as the ubiquitous cartoon parodies--be yourself, don't trust appearances, women can be heroic too. But it creates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Shrek Bad for Kids? | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

That curiosity is paramount for Gawande in the pursuit of personal and professional success. Despite his officially-deemed “genius” status, Gawande continues searching for better solutions to medicine’s many flaws...

Author: By Claire J. Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Doctor: Medical World Flawed | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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