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...would ask for a third take, and the A.D. [assistant director] would be like, 'What do you think you are - Kubrick?'" Somehow, though, these two kids from an Australian film school, working on their first feature, got it done, and matched the ingenuity of the plot with a slick, sick visual style. (The film's green pallor suggests that Wan, an ethnic Chinese born in Malaysia, had been watching a few of the Hong Kong dramas shot by Christopher Doyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saw Came and Conquered | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

Ackroyd and her shoulder notwithstanding, current elder-cohousing residents tend to be healthy, active and independent, so no one is sure how the concept will work when increasing numbers of residents become frail and in need of assistance. Advocates say that when residents get sick, they will pay for and arrange their own care but that the communal-living arrangement may offer an advantage since infirm members could share the expense of hiring a health-care provider to tend to several of them. And, of course, members will continue to enjoy the support and physical presence of people who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Home Alone | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...common with its residents than with her current neighbors, many of whom are young families "wondering where to find the next baby sitter and getting dinner on the table." At Silver Sage, by contrast, there are monthly meetings at which members discuss aging issues. "People are going to get sick and die, and we want to have a plan about how we as a community are going to embrace and support that," says Russell. In the process, they'll also be pioneering a new way for the elderly to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Home Alone | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Between 57% and and 68% of respondents - among all four God types - include "take care of the sick and needy" in their criteria for being a "good person"; the interesting question is why the other 30% thought those qualities didn't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind America's Different Perceptions of God | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...comedian so I have high hopes…TY: Uh oh…Comedians are notoriously funny off stage. RR: And you do mostly stand up? TY: Yeah that is my job I guess. It’s a good job. RR: Comedians are notoriously dark, sick and depraved people. Are you? TY: I’ll should take the fifth on that one, Jesus Christ. The comedian life lends itself to depravity, but I don’t. RR: Larry David once said that if he had ever been successful with women, he wouldn’t have been...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comedians for a Cause | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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