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...answer, in 2001, appears to be: not quite. Another Luther has appeared, in the form of writer/director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused). With his new film, Waking Life, which opens today, he reaffirms the two theses of Roger Rabbit and adds two more...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animation Evolves in Linklater's Waking Life | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...plot. And the bureau is not willing to say this Al-Marabh is the man on its watch list. (The bureau is sure, however, that he is the Boston cabdriver who stabbed his roommate.) In interviews with TIME, neighbors and co-workers describe Al-Marabh as a hot-tempered slacker with a fondness for fruity, slushy drinks and a longing for female companionship. "He was always asking if anyone could hook him up with women," says a co-worker calling himself Haidar. As of Saturday Al-Marabh had not been charged with any offense and had not asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plot Comes Into Focus | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...time, just as the VCR turned moviegoers into home cineasts, video and DVD releases of old TV shows promise to create a generation of videasts. And it's not just a handful of hits that benefit. Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rerun Revival | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...shadow. Now Roger is sweating under the hot lights as questions pile up about whether he had a role in an outrageous array of slippery and ill-fated schemes ranging from Mafioso pardons to Chinese scooter imports to Venezuelan coal mines. Though he always seemed to be the slacker Clinton, Roger now appears to have been a very busy man after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Questions About Roger Clinton's Slippery Schemes | 6/30/2001 | See Source »

Jewel appears to us--and to Randy (Matt Dillon), the slacker barkeep at the film's eponymous drinking establishment--as a simple material girl. He rescues her from an apparent rape attempt, takes her home to his fixer-upper and soon finds himself innocently abetting two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex, Lies And DVD Player | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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