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...year-end movies are often solemn, sensitive items: women's work after 11 months of guy stuff. But Oliver Stone is alpha male incarnate, and his pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: It's His Same Old Story | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...flashlight, opposite page, and laser pointer come as a yin-and-yang pair. One helps you find stuff in the dark; the other is a proven tool for annoying house cats and rock musicians. griffintechnology.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Cool Tech | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

These $100 Supertubes from Rip Curl, maker of cool stuff for surfers, feature rubber ear stems for a full-wrap fit. Polarized lenses are optional. See ripcurl.com for stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: For The Adventurer | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...coping mechanisms, often within their unit. Leaders try to find downtime for their men, and memorial services for the fallen can help with grieving. But clinically speaking, Nash says, most soldiers and Marines engage in denial and dissociation to get through. "Everybody out here is putting all this stuff in a closet and storing it up," he says, "because you just can't deal with it right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wounds That Don't Bleed | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a towel on a Monday Night Football teaser, leaf through Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, log onto the Internet and bathe in all that warm cyberswill. But all this is essentially kid stuff, somewhere between adolescent and infantile in its voyeuristic avidity. It codifies the randy talk in a boys' tree house: the boasts and jokes and threats that mask the fear of (Ugh! Gross!) growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Let's Talk About Sex | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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