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He was the Crosby, the Sinatra, the Elvis of Mexico. The top-of-the-charts love ballads he sang in films sent 10 million senoritas into ecstasy; he crooned, they swooned. The movies he starred in were among the most popular in Latin America; and one, the 1948 Nosotros los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

For Luke Wilson, tackling the lighter side of film comes naturally. He’s played the rebellious frat-boy, the sometimes sappy romantic lead, and the brunette half of a quirky, floppy haired sibling comedy duo. But come this Friday, with the release of his new motel-trip-gone...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Luke Wilson Trades ‘Old School’ Charms for Serious Thriller | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

Exceptions to the author's reserve mostly center on Gandhi's limitations as a family man. Where the world sees a saint, Rajmohan Gandhi sees a cruel husband and a mostly absent father, paying scant attention to his children's schooling and dragging wife Kasturba across continents at will, belittling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being Mohandas | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

The American screen has long been a smoky place, at least since 1942's Now, Voyager, in which Bette Davis and Paul Henreid showed how to make and seal a romantic deal over a pair of cigarettes that were smoldering as much as the stars. Today cigarettes are more common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Smoke Alarm | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

One reason for the vanishing movie female is that the genres in which women used to be equal or dominant--the romantic melodrama and comedy--fell out of favor when the core audience changed from families to teen boys. The guy-kids prefer starker fare: action movies (one man against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: Why Can't a Woman ... Be a Man? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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