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...that head of hair. That was the reasoning behind shaving my head. Straight away we separated ourselves [from the original]. I've been mocked for that on blogs, but his tresses are an iconic image. So I went the opposite way and made it a bit more modern. Someone told me that they didn't have buzz cuts in those days. And I said, "Well, they didn't have winged horses either. It's a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans' Sam Worthington | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...liked it. This is a full-throttle action-adventure, played unapologetically straight. Except for a daft, doom-saying prophet, who seems to have wandered into Argos from a Monty Python sketch, the movie proceeds without winks or nudges; it doesn't cue its viewers to easy laughs. As Worthington told an interviewer, "We take it serious so the audience doesn't have to take it too serious." The movie relies instead on the narrative twists and power of the old Greek myths; for, purely as tales to keep the faithful entertained, the notions of gods as jealous and deceitful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...mail to Currierwire on Wednesday, Currier House Administrator Patricia G. Pepper told residents that the Dance Studio will be closed for the rest of the year, and the Treehouse will be closed until further notice...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flooding in Currier House | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...been a rabbinical guide as I, a secular Jew, have covered the same beat in more recent years. In a rare quiet moment in 2005 when we together covered the period between the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI, Bonfante, a practicing Catholic, told me what continues to draw him to his faith. "Catholicism has a great formula," he said. "It starts with the idea that we are all sinners who must try our best to be good. And when we fail, it gives us a way to repent and cleanse ourselves of our failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Benedict Should Handle the Abuse Scandal | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...trying to get a better handle on his new spiritual leader and wanted to know what Benedict's stance had been on John Paul II's pleas back in 2000 for forgiveness of the Church's sins over the past millennia toward women, minorities and heretics. My sources, I told him, always said that Ratzinger had been skeptical about such public declarations, feeling they could stain the Church as a whole. "I see," Jordan said with clear disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Benedict Should Handle the Abuse Scandal | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

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