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...these gung-ho, better-dead-than-Red melodramas. That might register only as more grousing from the artistic Left, if the movie weren't so wildly and encyclopedically entertaining - a sendup and evocation of spy movies, with some great martial-arts moves. Start to finish, it packs plenty more punch than one of Kim Jong-il's sputtering Scuds...
...Brown's strengths. He handled policy as well as any national leader, even if there were questions about the light-touch system of financial regulation he had championed. And he hosted the G-20 economic summit in London deftly, showing there were times when, even after Blair, Britain could punch above its weight. (See a TIME video from outside...
Palin, Gov. Sarah • praise for U.S. troops is hamhandedly jammed into grudging sort-of-acceptance by of David Letterman's abject apology to while the idiotic media babbles about it endlessly as if any of it had any significance whatsoever beyond the amusing fact that a national punch line is complaining about a joke...
...camera shake there as I just lost it. But he's so good at stuff like that, you just have to trust him when he starts going off-script. Will's actually really articulate about his philosophy behind this - that he thinks if you only go for the cheap punch line and don't trust the laugh, you'll never get anywhere. It's with the rolling laugh, where you watch the character keep going forward with a mistake and allow it to really play itself out, that you get 'em. (TIME reports: Will Ferrell - Brilliant Idiot...
...Brown, head of Jahnke's college, told TIME in an e-mail. "We respect his freedom of expression.") British politicians regularly have things thrown at them by protesting members of the public - in 2001, someone threw an egg at then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who famously threw a punch back, and more recently, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was the victim of a green-custard attack by an environmentalist. But cases like those don't usually end up in court. (See the top 10 awkward moments...