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...star turn. both because it's an inspired stunt that she executes with aplomb (she's a more convincing Dylan, no joke, than she was a Katharine Hepburn) and because she's playing Dylan in 1965, the year he lost his old-folkie admirers on his way to rock stardom. With a fabulous frizz do, and a posture stooped by the burden of celebrity, s/he cavorts with the Beatles at a garden party, meets Allen Ginsberg (Arrested Development's David Cross) on the road and - it was always a game with Dylan - deflects reporters' questions on his political opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dylan and the Beatles: Together Again! | 9/16/2007 | See Source »

...stories and the same footage over and over again. Legal experts and social scientists have been brought out to hail Dutt and Khan's sentences - at the end of court cases that dragged on for 14 and 9 years, respectively - as a triumph of justice over influence, and even stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Movie Stars Behind Bars | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...martyr video; Liberty and Justice, airport security guards who conduct random security checks on passengers named Ali, Rashid and Abdullah; and Foxy Redstate, an ambitious broadcast journalist who uncovers the bomb plot, but keeps it quiet with the hope of landing an exclusive that will launch her to media stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Comedy in Terrorism | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...style pent-up fury. "A lot of actors in their 20s don't have that much range," says LaBeouf's Transformers co-star John Turturro. "The world is different now, less rugged in some ways. Everything is facile. But Shia has something else. He's been through a lot." Stardom in youth doesn't guarantee career longevity, though, says Turturro. In Transformers, LaBeouf plays a kid four years younger than his actual age. "Shia's playing juveniles right now," says Turturro. "He's just gotta make sure he develops, so when this period of time passes, he can do other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kid Gets the Picture | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...couple of postal workers from Shenzhen, he is part of what Yao has wrought. His trail from gawky teenager growing up in southern China - he was 6'3"? by the time he was 12, when he played in his first basketball game - to the brink of stardom quietly delights the powers behind the global sports marketing machine that the NBA has become, because they helped get "The Big Yi"? (pronounced "E", a la the nickname of hall of fame forward Elvin Hayes) where he is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Yao the NBA Cheers Yi | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

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