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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...District 9, a grimy little scare-fi thriller from South Africa, hitherto unknown as a production center for really cool movies. The picture bears the imprimatur of another gifted outsider, Peter Jackson, who with The Lord of the Rings made New Zealand his own little Hollywood. But the real star is director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp, 29, who proves with his first feature that no genre is so tarnished by overuse and misuse that it can't be revived by a smart kid with fresh ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: District 9: The Summer's Coolest Fantasy Film | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...bold choice being floated is state representative Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, a Trinidad-born, African-American Republican who has been the state house's majority whip and deputy majority leader. A rising star in the Florida GOP, Carroll, 49, served 20 years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a lieutenant commander. Another is GOP state representative Anitere Flores of Miami. Flores, the current deputy majority leader, is only 32, and she's the legislature's only Hispanic female - which itself is a comment on both the Democratic and the Republican parties in Florida. Flores, who has also been mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Senate Seat: The (Premature) Martinez Opening | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

Have you seen the latest Star Trek film? I haven't. Abrams sent me a message through the Web - what was it, Twittered me? No. YouTubed me? No, what has he done? E-mailed me. He e-mailed me saying he heard that I hadn't seen the movie and he'd set up a private screening, and I declined the private screening and told him I'd buy him dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Shatner | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...late June, Teri, now 31, tearfully packed the last few things - dishes, plants - in her three-bedroom house in Star, a Boise exurb of a few thousand people. When the Lupos' 7-year-old daughter was asked by a neighborhood friend why her family didn't have enough money to pay for its house, she couldn't say. The answer: her father's income from selling cars kept dropping just as her mother's medical-transcription company started losing business to electronic record-keeping. Among the expenses cut from the family budget was health insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Housing Market Is Fighting Its Way Back | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Star Grows in Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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