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...Taiwan and Vietnam. But for all that Asian input, animated films inevitably "feel" Western. That's because the Western studios dominate the creative process, typically providing the story concept, script, character design and voice tracks, while the labor-intensive postproduction work is farmed out to Asia. Now, serial entrepreneur Richard Branson and a team of fellow pioneers say they're determined to "reverse the funnel" and produce world-beating Indian comic heroes for the digital age via the newly established Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation. "We will be tapping into the great mythic storytelling in India to create a whole...
...quarter of them were passed into law, up from only 12% two years before. In Washington the word obesity appears in 56 bills introduced during the current Congress; this, the Wall Street Journal points out, is fast catching up with the number containing the word gun. Surgeon General Richard Carmona says obesity is a greater threat than terrorism. Some public-health advocates have begun urging the government to put a warning label on soft drinks; others are calling for a "fat tax" on fast food...
...with Wolves. All the doom and zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project and a consultant for Apocalypto: "This is by far the best treatment--the first treatment really--of the Maya any film has ever done. I'm amazed at the detail Mel's shooting...
...sang a famous goodbye serenade to Johnny Carson. Along the way Bette Midler, 60, has built a career out of making retro cool, from films like For the Boys to her latest CD, Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook. The Divine Miss M spoke with TIME's Richard Zoglin about Mae West, Las Vegas and the next generation of divas...
...further comment.) And several Republican officials said that if any change were made, it would be the addition of a wise man often referred to as "a David Gergen figure" rather than the departure (forced or otherwise) of any key staff members. Gergen, now a Harvard professor, served Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton...