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...film also fits into the recent, dominant trend of buddy movies. Each of the dying men here has to find his destiny not on his own, not with his family or through fulfilling work, but with another guy on a toot. The men in Sideways needed to cut loose before one of them got married; the high school kids in Superbad had to get laid before graduation. In this film, the deadline is death, but the M.O. is the same: fun, fun, fun till the Reaper takes your Mustang away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Myths: The Bucket List and The Savages | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...Sturges got her to channel her hyperactivity in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, a 1944 comedy that transposes the Nativity story to an American town overrun with horny soldiers. Hutton's Trudy Kockenlocker is a virginal party girl who gets drunk and pregnant on a toot with the boys in uniform. To save the family's reputation, Trudy must convince Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), the 4F loony who has loved her since childhood, to marry her while impersonating the soldier who knocked her up - whoever he was. (Trudy thinks his name might have been Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki.) Addressing all kinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

...keeps forgetting to mention that he believes he would make a good President. ("I don't mean to toot my own horn," he said at the firehouse, when he finally remembered to boast.) Giuliani's biggest round of applause is usually the one when he's introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Rudy Smiling? | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...more welcoming are Wiggles groupies, partly because some are still potty training. The new Yellow Wiggle, SAM MORAN, replaces the Australian kids' band's lead singer of 15 years, Greg Page, who left due to an illness that kept him from performing standards like Yummy Yummy and Toot Toot. The ubiquitous group has sold more than 15 million CDs and DVDs in the U.S. Van Halen has sold more, but Van Halen fans don't have such grateful mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 18, 2006 | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Turns out I'm a Mini Cooper. By nearly unanimous vote, my friends, family and colleagues say that if I were a car, I'd be a Mini, a BMW Z5 or some other convertible roadster. Not to, er, toot my own horn, but that means people see me as small but bold, stylish and full of energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Brand-You World | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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