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Pity poor Uma Thurman. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, her new movie, she plays a superhero who falls for Luke Wilson, a not very successful architect. He does not reciprocate, a less than shrewd response to a woman who, with one glance, can set you alight--and I don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone? | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

The shift in power between the sexes has nowhere been greater than in romantic comedies. The men are about as useful as a pitcher of spit, while the women have careers and well-furnished apartments and vast freighters of wisdom. In Julianne Moore's next movie, Trust the Man, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone? | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

It's clear we can't return to the days of Gigi and Daddy Long Legs and Funny Girl, when gawky young women were transformed into Givenchy-wearing lovelies by suave, much older men who danced well. Steve Martin tried that last year with shopgirl. In the scene where he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone? | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

A ruggedly handsome man emerges from under the hood of a car, rubbing his grimy hands on white cloth. Leaning against the dark sedan, another man, young and athletic looking, gifts the mechanic a neat new watch. His reward? The man leans in and the two share a kiss. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Ad Adage: Same Sex Sells | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

Eventually, he gave up Monday-night football to visit her apartment. They talked for more than an hour. "She was smart," recalls Rusty, who was 25 at the time, as was Andrea. "She used two or three words and I didn't know what they were." Perhaps for fear of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

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