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...their nominees for Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Actress, as well as finalists in other unconventional categories including Worst Screen Couple and Worst Prequel or Sequel. (See this year's Razzie nominees.) On Feb. 21, the day before the Oscars ceremony, the Razzies will be announced at a special dinner in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Razzies | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets and promotional efforts and this much talent involved" takes special effort, Wilson notes. "You look at a movie like Indiana Jones 4 and it's such a spectacular train wreck that it really does deserve recognition at some level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Razzies | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...world do Plutophiles, which you make a pun on in your book title, even exist? What's so special about Pluto? All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. So here you have a recipe for Americans falling in love with a planet that really is just a tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...will not arrive until the second half of the year, unemployment may well be over 9% before aid can support job creation. The retail industry is bleeding jobs. Circuit City has just liquidated, leaving 30,000 people out of work. Unless these newly and soon-to-be unemployed have special skills that will allow them to work in areas other than retail, the economy has no place to employ them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Portrait Of The 2012 Inauguration | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...incoming First Lady, Michelle Obama, is also doing her part in wooing the armed forces. She has already made clear that she wants to adopt military families as her special concern. Perhaps that's why the so-called Kids' Inaugural on Monday night, featuring the Jonas Brothers, is being billed as a concert to honor military families. One of the 10 official balls the new President will attend on Tuesday night is the Commander in Chief's Ball (first held by George W. Bush); the largely enlisted crowd will get to attend free of charge in the National Building Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Wooing the Military | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

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