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...makes a pistol out of his thumb and forefinger, cocks his wrist and aims at an imaginary target across the room. "Locked and loaded," he says, looking over with a wide, confident, closed-mouth grin. It's 11:35 p.m., and he's ready for sport. This is a night for kau lui - a woman-hunting night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Frenki has remained oddly invisible. Rumors circulate of his death, resurrection and/or transmogrification into someone else. Few know his precise whereabouts, and significantly, no photograph has ever been published. That is deliberate; when a reporter tried to take his picture on the battlefield, the reporter says, Frenki put a pistol to the man's temple and told him that if he tried that again, Frenki would pull the trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bloody Red Berets | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...game's star, Lara, was designed to be different. In a videogame scene filled at the time with Uzi-toting brain-dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity, but they are vacuous, so absolutely vacuous. A lot of females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughterhouse | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Feckless Jerry (Brad Pitt) is sent south of the border to retrieve an antique pistol for his Mob bosses. His girl, spunky Samantha (Julia Roberts), thinks this desertion is just another of his many failures at intimacy and leaves him for a new life in Las Vegas. On her way, a soulful hit man (The Sopranos' James Gandolfini) takes her hostage in an attempt to focus Jerry's attention on his job. Half comedy, half action piece, the movie runs sputteringly on the not inconsiderable charm of its stars. But basically it is languid, indeterminate and uninvolving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mexican | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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