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...film caps its triumphal happy ending by having its lovers stare into the future and the suburban, plastic life yawning at them. THE WILD RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude: the bedroom eyes, the insult of a pearly smile, the preter-natural cocksureness. "I don't break the law," he sneers at a cop. "I make my own." Director Harvey Berman's earnest melodrama, about a teen rebel due for his comeuppance, is fun for its glimpse of Baby Jack's crystalline ego. When he's dumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DVDs: 5 Hip New DVDs From That Hip Decade | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...said "No." Grzelak invited her back the next day, but Niezabitowska said she was not about to change her mind. "That was the last meeting I had with them," she insists. A few weeks later, outside a grocery store, she ran into Grzelak, who greeted her with a smile and another invitation to talk. "Leave me alone," she said. Niezabitowska's file confirms most of this account - but it doesn't stop there. Grzelak wrote that Niezabitowska did come back the next day and agreed to collaborate under the code name Nowak. The controller filed 10 additional reports on meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reckoning | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...DOES TERRI SCHIAVO OPEN HER EYES, BLINK AND APPEAR TO SMILE IN THE VIDEO HER PARENTS MADE? The most difficult thing to understand about a vegetative state is that it allows one to be awake but not aware. (In a coma, you are unresponsive and your eyes are closed.) Because the sleep-wake cycle and certain eye movements are not controlled by the cortex or the thalamus, they can continue without conscious awareness. Even acts of crying and smiling may be reflexive events that do not occur in response to specific stimuli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: When Does the Brain Go Blank? | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen), on the lam from the law, protects the city's only honorable citizens: the hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Miller's Double Crossing | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...meantime, he continues to be a campus celebrity. Over 75 students belong to the “Spare Change Guy Fan Club” on thefacebook.com, which pays tribute to Daugherty’s trademark sales pitches, including “Pretty lady, show me a smile,” and “Sister, can you spare a dime...

Author: By Anne E. Bensson and Anna M. Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Vendor Asks Square To ‘Spare | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

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