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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just hear that Irene "[takes] steps to prevent" having a child with Soames; we see that--in the contraceptive manner of the time--she douches after sex. But the themes (love vs. money, bohemians vs. the Man) probably appeared more vital in 1969; Soames is no less a villain, but Bosinney now seems, unintentionally, a bit of a preening artiste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Still Your Grandfather's PBS | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...villain in Bombay Dreams, the tinsel-and-tabla musical currently wowing London's West End, is J.R., The Big Boss, a gangster who controls the film industry and whose menacing mantra is: "I'll be watching. I always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Married to the Mob | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

Someone must have forgot to tell Blind Date alum Jerri Manthey, who became the she-villain of Survivor 2. Or Allen, an aspiring actor who's been on Elimidate, Change of Heart, A Dating Story and "a dating-auction show that never aired called The Gamut." Kelly Ryan, a waitress in Studio City, Calif., parlayed a Blind Date appearance into stints on dating-game shows SexWars (she won $4,000) and Friends or Lovers. Ryan played the wild girl on her date, coaxing her beau into a hot-tub dip (surprise!) and a shower. The budding nightclub singer said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Tubs And Cold Shoulders | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

Kids will be streaming into multiplexes this weekend for Austin Powers in Goldmember. They will be lured by a flood of TV spots, a million-dollar-giveaway fast-food tie-in--and the chance to see Mike Myers pee into the mouth of a supine villain. This is what the sexually adventurous call a golden shower, and what the movie-ratings board calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Essay Is Rated PG-13 | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...less interesting book comes from Lincoln, California and the pen of Paul Hornschemeier. "Forlorn Funnies" number one (Absence of Ink Comic Press; 32pp.; $3.95) mixes sophomoric humor with existential despair in a full-color extravaganza that constantly surprises with its design. The opening page shows an archetypical villain, stove-pipe-hatted, handlebar-mustachioed riding his horse. The panels of page two, on the underside, have been lightly printed in the background, backwards, as if you could see through the paper - a kind of literal foreshadowing. Comically frustrated in his villainy, he asks himself "At what point did you stop loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading on the Edge | 7/23/2002 | See Source »

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