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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Spread, there is a scene where you talk about getting bonus points for preparing a meal for your girlfriend. Is there anything you do for Demi to score points? -Tara Matthews, Boardman, Ohio There are definitely things, but the character in the movie and I have different motivations. More often than not, I just try to do things without keeping score, without expecting something in return or without having an agenda. (See pictures of famous couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ashton Kutcher | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...screen. Maybe prospective producers were reluctant to buck the prevailing wisdom of a conventional happy ending. Anyway, here is the film version, directed by Robert Schwentke. It's soppy enough to suit the requirements of the weepie genre, and there's a music score that tries to cue all the emotions in viewers, as if they're incapable of locating their own feelings. But the movie also has an aching solidity that allows you to surrender to its cuddly-creepy feelings without hating yourself in the morning. (See the best 1950s sci-fi movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Traveler's Wife: Love, Death and More Love | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...company in 1939, he struck out on his own in 1944, the beginning of his almost 50-year collaboration--both professional and personal--with composer John Cage. He strayed from Graham's romantic, balletic style and instead emphasized sudden changes of direction and insisted that the dance moves, musical score, set design and costumes all be prepared independently of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merce Cunningham | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Since Dwight Eisenhower evicted the South Lawn squirrels tearing up his putting green, every President but Jimmy Carter has been a golfer. John Kennedy was known for low scores and a graceful swing. Ronald Reagan, whose scores were a state secret, putted down the aisle of Air Force One. Bill Clinton established a reputation for fudging his score - cheating, some said - in rounds with campaign donors while chewing an unlit cigar on the tee. George W. Bush played the way his father H.W. did, like a race against time, until the last years in office, when the son banned himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: America's (Not So Great) Golfer-in-Chief | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

...determine levels of inactivity over one week, the children in the study wore accelerometers, which resemble pedometers but instead of tracking distance, they record the body's acceleration in a vertical plane - sitting results in a score of zero, and walking and running produce progressively higher scores. The researchers considered anything under a score of 50 per day as sedentary. They coupled this data with reports from the children's parents about how much time the kids spent in inactive pursuits, including watching television, sitting at a computer, playing video games, reading or doing other projects that don't require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching TV: Even Worse for Kids Than You Think | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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