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...Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show, and he's appeared in half a dozen mostly forgettable big-screen comedies. But he started getting serious in 1999 with a bravura performance as an ego-driven quarterback in Oliver Stone's football drama, Any Given Sunday. "Chris Tucker beat me to the slot of big comedy," he says. "Chris Rock has his own slot. Will's got his slot. So do Martin Lawrence and all those guys. I got lucky in getting the chance to do something dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jamie Foxx | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...town of Jabiru, tel: (61-8) 8979-2800. Architectural whimsy has been given full flight in the design of the hotel, which is shaped like a crocodile. Rest assured, normal facilities, including a central courtyard with shaded swimming pool, an outdoor barbecue area and a restaurant offering gourmet bush tucker (Ozspeak for outback specialties) lie within. Doubles, including a full buffet breakfast, are $75 a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Walkabout in Australia's Wild Eden | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...privacy advocates who placed the U.S. in the vulnerable position it was in on that fateful day. Is there risk of potential abuse? Possibly, but it's a small price to pay for the increased effectiveness of those burdened with the responsibility of our nation's security. TOM TUCKER Carlsbad, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 2001 | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...REMEMBER TUCKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinventing The Wheel | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...hardest truths for any technologist to hear is that success or failure in business is rarely determined by the quality of the technology. Betamax was better than VHS; the Mac operating system is superior to Windows. Even in the transportation business, there is the cautionary tale of Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s designed a "car of the future" packed with such safety innovations as a padded dashboard, disk brakes and safety glass--a car so far ahead of its time that only 51 were ever produced. In fact, the annals of high-tech history contain remarkably few cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinventing The Wheel | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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