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...high-camp, high-concept, highly stylized adrenaline rush of a movie--Diesel stars as Xander Cage, the ripped and tattooed un-James Bond. Like Diesel himself, who admits that when he was a child his "appetite for attention was insatiable," Xander is a self-starting, self-promoting charmer who is presumably unfit for any occupation other than star. Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Next Action Hero | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...returned to the stage, where she does a kind of stand-still-and-clap thing that makes Al Gore seem like Jackie Wilson. Oddly enough, she isn't doing a particularly good impersonation of Will Ferrell's impersonation of her. I leave my friends behind and rush the stage to try to dance with Reno, only to find myself in a small crowd of men living the same fantasy. When I finally push my way past them, she is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knew? The Lady Is a Dancin' Machine | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...episodes--at a deep discount. But despite being shot before 9/11, Ashleigh Banfield's dye job, Greta Van Susteren's eye job and Paula Zahn's "zipper" ad, News doesn't play like old news. Like E.R., whose frenzied pace it emulates, News nails the jargon and the adrenaline rush of its subject. And the series pays admirable attention to the dangers of synergy-spawned conflicts of interest and corporate meddling in today's merger-mad media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: They Report, You Decide | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...that the pace of discovery—and eventual profitability—is much slower than with easy-to-manufacture microchips. Products such as drugs take decades to pass through strict government reviews. Europeans refuse to eat genetically engineered food. Biotechnology is less of a Silicon Valley-style gold rush than a minefield where only the truly exceptional companies can turn a profit before they burn through all their capital...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Biotech Valley, Boston? | 7/26/2002 | See Source »

...returned to the stage, where she does a kind of stand-still-and-clap thing that makes Al Gore seem like Jackie Wilson. Oddly enough, she isn't doing a particularly good impersonation of Will Ferrell's impersonation of her. I leave my friends behind and rush the stage to try to dance with Reno, only to find myself in a small crowd of men living the same fantasy. When I finally push my way past them, she is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Janet Reno's a Dancin' Machine | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

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