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...army-style coat. "I hadn't figured out properly how to act, and all of a sudden I was being thrown into these lead roles. I didn't have the black room and the black pajamas to prance around making mistakes in private. All my mistakes are on the screen." Most of all, Ledger says, he felt he was undeserving. "I wanted to scrub it all away and start again, to see what my abilities are, if there are any." Or as Jordan puts it, "They wanted him to be Harrison Ford. He wants to be Sean Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heath Turns It Around | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

Despite boasting perennial nobel candidate and literary giant Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's best-known cultural stars tend to spring from the small screen. So when a 27-year-old with a keen eye and quick wit penned a devastating examination of some of the country's most taboo subjects, it wasn't just the critics who were amazed. The only thing rarer than a female author in Indonesia is a best-selling one, a distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whiff of Truth | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...Goblet movie gets bustling straight off; those two scenes are dramatized (nicely) and dispensed with in 15-20 minutes. The movie is dense - every millimeter of screen space is art-directed up the wazoo - but not congested, Terry Gilliam-style. Each of the thousand elements knows its place: in the background, ceding eye-focus to the story and its increasingly plausible and compelling characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's 'Goblet' Gets Better On Screen | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...oriented attack that better suits Holsey’s skills.“I can get passes and create my own offense, and drive and dish?that kind of stuff,” Holsey says. “It’s fun, because I can come off a screen, get it and throw up a shot.”On a consistent basis, then, fans can expect from Holsey what they saw only in occasional outbursts last year—a 28-point masterpiece against URI, 23 points each against USC and Princeton, a 21-point game against Yale...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005: UNLEASHED: In Harvard’s Wild New Offense, There’s No Telling What Co-Captain Jessica Holsey Can Do | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...that included their most recent hit, “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine.” Following this loveable drag-jangle with “The Way We Get By,” the song that single-handedly put Spoon, at least temporarily, on the mainstream radar screen (with an article in Time magazine), and pounding out “Sister Jack” right after that constituted the best one-two knockout the band had to offer and whipped the fans up as close to a frenzy as they could get without spilling their over-sized Budweisers...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spoon Digs Into Crowd at Avalon | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

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