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...ancient China, a pudgy young panda named Po (voiced by Jack Black) dreams of "legends full of legendary warriors whose exploits are the stuff of legends." In these Technicolor daydreams, even the legendary Furious Five are no match for a panda's bodacity. In real life, or as real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is the waiter in the village noodle shop run by his father (James Hong) - who happens to be a goose, but never mind. When Po hears that the thousand-year-old turtle Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) is to anoint the Dragon Warrior that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Aurora High School in Aurora, Ill., has put on ambitious shows in the past like Cats and Les Misérables, and last year she even figured out a way to get a helicopter to lift off the stage for a production of Miss Saigon. But that was kid stuff compared her challenge this spring: staging the nation's first licensed high school edition of Rent. Though the script had been pruned of most of the roughest material, this is still a musical in which most of the characters are either on drugs, suffering from AIDS, or having sex with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Birdie. Hello, Rent | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...shows for all secondary productions, including schools. "It's about the entire school. It's about the kids involved doing the advertising, the marketing, the tech work, the costume work. And that extends out to the community, because they reach out to parents who also support in helping build stuff." Indeed, in sharp contrast to the cost-conscious commercial theater, high school directors seek out shows with the biggest casts possible. "You want as many opportunities for as many kids as you can have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Birdie. Hello, Rent | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Nonetheless, things are loosening up, aren't they? KHOO: I started doing short films back in 1989, and I can feel the change. A lot of the stuff that I couldn't get away with back then, we can get away with now. I think that they do want the population to be more creative and self-expressive. That's basically it. UEKRONGTHAM: Part of that relaxation could also be economically driven, because the government has expressly said that it wants to increase the GDP from the media sector by a certain percentage, and part of that is that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore Redux | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...longer Pope spent studying the data, the more he came to believe that some UFO sightings really can't be explained by terrestrial activity - a conclusion that earned him a reputation as "Britain's Fox Mulder." "You've got to really drill down into it to get the good stuff, but the good stuff is there," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Releases its X-Files | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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