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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Indeed, Bruckheimer, who is surprisingly soft-spoken for a man whose movies are so loud, has begun working with more established directors such as Joel Schumacher and Ridley Scott. He has even thought of directing himself. But there's one thing about Bruckheimer that won't change. "My biggest thrill is when I sit in a theater and watch people laugh and cry and cheer," he says. "You start with a little idea and make it happen and watch it explode." Pearl Harbor may be loud enough to drown out the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pearl Harbor's Top Gun | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force feedback via a network of artificial tendons. I "feel" the ball as I bat it through cyberspace. There are flaws: the hand sometimes goes through the object. But it's a thrill touching something that isn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands On | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...asks me over the phone, before saying hello. I am 28. "You are finished. I'm the only one in there who's over 28. These young studs who've been getting all the press better move over. I'm giving you fair warning." Regis inhales. "It's a thrill for me. I don't know if they're serious or not, but I'll take it." They are serious. "Regis is an icon at the moment," says 16 editor Roberta Caploe. "Granted, he's somewhere out of the normal universe of people we cover, but he's accessible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 28, 2001 | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...current dictator, while secretly preparing to put a hand-picked puppet in his place. Simultaneously the communists (secretly in cahoots with the dictator's amazonian wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative of the "U.S. Fruit Company," and you pretty much have the definition of a modern pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An 'American Century' of Unrepentant Crime | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

...extra 150-meter loop for every shot missed. Since I am a better shooter than skier, the shooting range becomes my only place of potential glory in this kind of race. I hit all five targets during my first prone shooting bout during the race, and get the thrill of skiing past the penalty area knowing that clean shooting had just bumped me up eight places in the standings. This is the nearest thing to actual "victory" I feel during the entire competition (of course, this feeling fades quickly as my slow skiing allows all those people to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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