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...supporting cast. So if you needlessly double-team him, Kobe will find the open man. Unlike in years past, Kobe is willing to pass the ball, and he does it quite well, thank you. Part of his newfound generosity is due to the fact that he now has All-Star-quality teammates in Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom who can finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to (Sort Of) Stop Kobe | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...success with Enter the Dragon. A boy who watched those movies would be nearing middle age now, but he'd recognize KFP's plot - of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter - from many films, including the one that made Jackie Chan a star, the 1978 Drunken Master. A kid would also remember that, for all the explosions of melodrama and comedy in these dynamic, dime-a-dozen epics, they were essentially training films in the Shaolin regimen of self-defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...impatience is rewarded and I must say the result is a laff riot. Well, all right, a laff scuffle - a picture that isn't quite as funny as it might be, but is as funny as it needs to be. Agreeably directed by Dennis Dugan, conceived by its star, Adam Sandler, and one-third written by him (his co-conspirators are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow), the picture bears many of the latter's trademark moves. That is to say it is simultaneously a little bit vulgar and a little bit sentimental and comes out as a virtually bullet-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zohan: Laff Scuffle, Not Laff Riot | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...ideas are "old" and "tired." It was a strong attack, but watching him deliver a set speech with a clenched grin to a partisan crowd may have made voters miss the McCain who made them feel like part of some feisty rebel band, not deckhands on the Death Star. "This was not a speechmaking contest," McCain adviser Alex Castellanos noted on CNN. "Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Past and Prologue. | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

EDDIE MURPHY to star in Beverly Hills Cop 4: Career Homicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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