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...think it will help boost the country's image as a relaxing and nice place to stay." WANASIRI MORAKUL, a director of the Thailand government's Film Office, on Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye, which starts production next year in the country's northern provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...assiduous champion: he collaborated with Spillane on several anthologies, cast him as a featured player in two movies. Collins directed and co-authored One Lonely Knight, the only book-length study of Spillane. Collins credits Spillane with creating, in Hammer "the template for James Bond, Dirty Harry, Billy Jack, Rambo, John Shaft, and countless other fictional tough guys." (When TIME reviewed Casino Royale, it praised Bond as "Mike Hammer in gentleman's clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...concerned,” Barker later says, doing his best Rambo impression, “it became my affair when they injured innocent London citizens and damaged public buildings...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Adventure of the Irish Terrorists | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...parent and an educator, I was surprised at the ''plus ca change . . .'' impression given by your piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1987 | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...movie high jinks of a Turkish Rambo who single-handedly takes on U.S. forces in lawless northern Iraq are filling cinemas across Turkey, America's only predominantly Muslim nato ally. Valley of the Wolves Iraq, which is set to break Turkish box-office records, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Blood on The Big Screen | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

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