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...calls this "the Cool Factor"--the mysterious marketing mojo that powers the $11 billion athletic-footwear market. That's where Iverson comes in, with his tattoos, corn-rowed hair and 'hood bravado. Allen is indispensably cool, which is why, a few months ago, when Reebok was the object of shrill protests over the obviously homophobic, misogynist lyrics in the basketball star's debut rap song, Fireman stood by his man. "I didn't agree with the song," says Fireman, who conceived the Reebok Human Rights Awards. "But he had a right to sing...
...admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many of us have made sorties into the electronic camp of the online enemy. Where can you find me every week? Not in TIME but, gratefully and lengthily, on time.com. It?s a place to take my expertise and passion for a good regular...
...this sub-ordinary sequel to the entertaining 1998 hit, a don't-invite-'em pair of cops--the serious one (Jackie Chan) from Hong Kong, the shrill one (Chris Tucker) from L.A.--do battle against malefactors of nearly every race. It's good to see Zhang Ziyi, the high-flying ingenue from Crouching Tiger, in a dragon-lady role, and fetching Roselyn Sanchez as a woman of uncertain loyalties. But until a vigorous climax, the action scenes have little punch. The film seems content to rely on the formula that could (small sigh) extend for a few more sequels: Jackie...
...schlubs, and dorks who made the Wendy's foodchain possible and who write "comix" review columns on "the web." Some may even wonder if by making a film the creators are implicitly entering the very universe of mass-cult they rail against in the picture. Fear not. Unlike those shrill, hard-sell teen comedies on the other screens, "Ghost World" never becomes the kind of empty, defensive snark-fest that it targets. Clowes and Zwigoff keep the organic pace of the original, and its empathic exploration of painfully changing relationships...
...while stationed in Baghdad during the civil war, Kane remembers what he still thinks of as his closest call. During a truce, Kane went with a friend to buy bread and determine the situation outside the American Embassy. Kane heard a shrill police whistle and was convinced he was about to get shot. He turned to find a young child playing with a police whistle...