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...another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie-star chats. But it is worth every second if the viewer brings an imaginary glass of Chianti to this enthralling, poignant feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Yes, I Remember | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

That tale consumed three enthralling hours a while back on Coast to Coast AM, the 5-hr.-a-night radio show devoted to all things weird and shepherded by Art Bell, a genial host shrouded, until recently, in his own poignant mystery. Photo "evidence" of the parchment-skinned ET can be seen on Bell's busy website www.artbell.com (44 million hits since January '97). When he is asked about the alien in the freezer, Bell laughs heartily. "Do I have doubts about that story? Yes! Was it entertaining? Oh, absolutely!" Bell, 54, offers a forum for all manner of amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Phones | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...turned foreign correspondent tells an intern about reporting, as he knows it. "Thay're in jayill naow, the fahks." For the old hack, possessed of a cockney so thick it sounds Australian and a mouth as foul as Sammy Sosa's late swing, the march of history is not poignant--it is a hard blow to the gut. He speaks of the former owners of United Press International, scoundrels whose skullduggery contributed to the proud organization's demise. A sadistic smile creeps across the man's face as he pictures UPI's former owners clutching steel bars. With good reason...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Where Old News Goes to Die | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...moon, the Apollo astronauts behaved like nothing more--and nothing less--than human beings. They toddled around; they fell down; they got dirty; they kept house. They knew the whole world knew they were there, yet they nonetheless made it a point to leave behind small or sweet or poignant things to mark their brief passing. Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, wrote his daughter's initials in the soil with his finger; Charlie Duke, lunar-module pilot of Apollo 16, left behind a picture of his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Asked For The Moon | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...likes her whiskey and her men aged 18--virtually every urban legend of teen porn can be found in this all-raunch, no-style sex comedy. Writer Adam Herz and the hot producer-director team of Chris and Paul Weitz occasionally hint that a teenager's most poignant groping is for his elusive identity. But don't expect this summer movie to have the huffing charm of Austin Powers or the tuneful brass of South Park. In its mix of caca and sex gags and woozy sentimentality, this is really Adam Sandler: The Next Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: American Pie | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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