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When he's speaking from prepared text, Geithner is less than riveting. He has an odd, somewhat robot-like way of scanning the audience when he talks: look left, look center, look right, look center, etc. Sitting in the witness chair before a congressional committee, though, he is brilliant - at least when he's not having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justin Fox Reviews Tim Geithner's Big Day | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

CHRISTIAN BALE caught losing his cool on Terminator set, sends robot back in time to erase tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...stressing how the festival was about having your work seen by an audience and not about the awards, which made it clear that it was all about winning an award. It also kept addressing everything to the director, in this case a team of respected visual artists called Walter Robot, instead of to me, the star and writer. Sundance seems to think directors matter. As if people fly to Utah for a film festival because it was started by the director of The Legend of Bagger Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Goes Campaigning in Sundance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Your avatar can fluidly walk or run from place to place. A drop-down menu lets you dance everything from the robot to sorta salsa. You can text other Homies or talk via any USB microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A PG-Rated Second Life | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...flying saucer plopped down on Washington's Mall. It carried two passengers, an alien called Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who had obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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