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...Bruce Willis is a pimp, dude," says Kevin Smith, the writer-producer who plays one of the villains in the movie and was such a fan growing up that he had Willis' pop-blues album, The Return of Bruno, in his car's cassette player at all times. "Bruce Willis made me start drinking. I'm not a fan of alcohol. But when Bruce Willis sings about golden wine coolers, you have to get your drink on. I showed up at parties with Seagram's wine coolers, and people would say, 'What are you, crazy? We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bruce Willis Keeps His Cool | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...possible my love for him will return. It may take a Lassie moment in which he saves my child from a grizzly, but such an encounter is not so likely in New Jersey. In the meantime, he persists. The dog follows me like a bad smell, settling at my feet as I read my child a bedtime story, panting by my knee as I cook my daughter's dinner. Dog lovers would call it unconditional love. They're wrong. A dog's love comes with a lengthy prenup: vet bills when it gets diarrhea; peroxide baths when it gets skunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demoting the Dog | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...post in the middle of Baquba, the news was less optimistic. An Iraqi General said that he was pretty certain that the al-Qaeda leadership had slipped away, north to Tikrit and Samarra, and that many of the fighters were burying their equipment before they left town, hoping to return-as always-when the Americans left. "Well, it's up to you to make sure they don't come back," Odierno said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning on al-Qaeda in Baquba | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...impatient Beijing, that he has little to lose from allowing North Korea to come out of its largely self-imposed isolation, accepting the blandishments of the Americans, the South Koreans and the Japanese - that is, fuel oil, economic aid, the renewal of full diplomatic relations with the U.S. - in return for giving up his nuclear program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Kim Jong Il Come to His Senses? | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

...think like a normal head of state: everything is a zero sum game to him - you win or I win. The U.S. Treasury's action freezing the funds squeezed the regime in a place that clearly hurt - its wallet - but then Washington backed off, and got absolutely nothing in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Kim Jong Il Come to His Senses? | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

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