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...remote viewing, which is the subject of this week's George Clooney semicomedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Bell promoted the notion that Mayan mystics predicted some great cataclysm to befall the earth on Dec. 21, 2012, and next week Roland Emmerich has a thriller on that very theme: 2012. Bell lived near Area 51, the Nevada military base that may be a giant freezer warehouse for alien bodies; in two weeks there's a Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson movie called Planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fourth Kind: Subnormal Activity | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...You’re Daddy,” co-written by Dr. Luke and Cuomo, continues the power-pop theme of the album’s opener. Combining synthesizers and mechanical beats with the high energy guitar creates a more prevalent pop sound which nearly masks such ridiculous rhymes such as “I will egg the goomba / If you tire / Try my best to moonwalk / On a wire...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weezer | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Other songs like “Put Me Back Together” and “I Don’t Want to Let You Go” take on emotional themes in the way only the most saccharine of pop songs can. The band slows down the tempo and Cuomo sings with a whiney twinge to his voice, as if trying to emulate the style of the “Put Me Back Together” co-writers Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects. “I Don’t Want...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weezer | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...What They're Building in China: After two decades of on-again, off-again talks, China has agreed to let Walt Disney pursue plans to construct a 1,000-acre (40 hectare) theme park in Shanghai, at an estimated cost of nearly $4 billion--one of the largest foreign investments in the country's history. Disney already operates a theme park in Hong Kong, which has struggled because of travel restrictions and visa requirements that limit access for many of China's 1.3 billion residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...recurring theme in the clips the True-Frosts presented was the difficulty of controlling a rowdy classroom, an issue with which many members of the audience had grappled with in personal teaching experiences...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBO's 'The Wire' Sparks Discussion | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

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