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...Perry's out to have fun too. He regularly steps out of character to ad-lib - chastising latecomers in the audience ("The show starts at 8. You move a little slower, you need to leave a little earlier"), joking about a co-star's bad breath and delivering impromptu movie reviews. (He praises Disney's The Princess and the Frog for having a black heroine but laments that she doesn't wind up with a black prince: "Black woman can't even have a black man in animation!") After the curtain call, he spends another 15 minutes talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler Perry's Big Happy Family | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Christmas, when Avatar opened to a $77 million gross, another film made its debut with $82,664 on four screens. That was Crazy Heart, an ordinary little movie that was at first scheduled to go direct to DVD. But the appealing performance by Jeff Bridges as a country-music star on the downalator charmed critics and started piling up best actor awards: from the L.A. film critics, the broadcast film critics, the Golden Globes gang and, most important, the Screen Actors Guild. Bridges is now the front runner for a Best Actor Oscar, and audiences have scrambled to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Shutter Island Opens Big | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

...main focuses of the Berlin Film Festival, which runs through Feb. 21, is always the celebrities who've jetted into the frosty German capital for the festivities. Leonardo diCaprio, the star of Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller, Shutter Island, was the talk of town after being spotted at the Grill Royal, one of Berlin's top restaurants. Ewan McGregor hit the red carpet to plug his new film, The Ghost Writer, and Renée Zellweger is sitting on the festival jury. Director Roman Polanski was conspicuous by his absence. (He's still under house arrest in Switzerland on rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oath: A Tale of Two Al-Qaeda Operatives | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...star" of the film is the former bin Laden bodyguard, Abu Jandal, a jovial, extroverted taxi driver now living in Yemen. After working for bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1990s, Jandal moved back to Yemen, where he was arrested by authorities in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000. He was briefly jailed and then made a deal with the Yemeni government to take part in the government's "reintegration" program, trying to persuade young Islamists to give up violence for education. Following the 9/11 attacks, Jandal was interrogated by FBI officials and became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oath: A Tale of Two Al-Qaeda Operatives | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

Harvard’s own star, co-captain Jeremy Lin, led his team with 24 points and went 10-of-11 from the free throw line, but he wasn’t able to will his squad to a dramatic comeback...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comeback Falls Short as Cornell Drops Crimson | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

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