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...fantasy? At the beginning of the film, we are told, "More of this is true than you would believe." And as a military device, remote viewing is surely no wackier than detecting weapons of mass destruction in a country that didn't have any. But as written by Peter Straughan (who also connived in the movie botch of the nonfiction book How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) and directed by Grant Heslov (screenwriter on the Clooney-directed Good Night, and Good Luck), Goats strains as hard to find a coherent comic craziness as Cassady does to make clouds part with...
...easily outgrossed the other three new entries in wide release. Shane Acker's visually imaginative animated feature 9, which finished second with $10.9 million, benefited from being presented by Tim Burton, as District 9 had by its Peter Jackson connection, but is unlikely to escape its art-house patina. The other two newbies - the horror film Sorority Row and Kate Beckinsale's Antarctica killer-hunt drama Whiteout - got the theatrical equivalent of a window display in a video store before their imminent DVD releases; each took in just over $5 million...
LONDON London Design Festival See the latest in new design, from Penguin chairs by Peter Opsvik for Varier (above) to a life-size interactive chess set in Trafalgar Square by Jaime Hayón (Sept...
...police that two men—actually Gates and his car driver—had forced their way through Gates’ front door. While the charges were dropped soon thereafter, the arrest triggered national debates about race and sparked a media frenzy. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...June 2007, one month before he was to officially start managing security for the embassy, Sauer found himself fired, along with his deputy, another retired Marine, Peter Martino of New Hampshire. Their case - which had the support of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit public-interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability - was settled out of court; its terms bar the parties from speaking about the case, and Sauer's attorney says neither she nor her client can speak to TIME. Sauer, however, isn't the only former ArmorGroup employee to make similar allegations about the embassy contract...