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Word: villainized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...human villain of the piece is Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), a suaver Joe McCarthy. He wants mutants registered because, he says, their eccentric gifts make them dangerous. Well, the mutant hunter is right! Magneto and his gang have planet-altering mischief in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Where's The Wow Factor? | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

ANTONIO TWISTELLI is a fine name for a comic-book villain (or a Sicilian porn star), but if Spawn comic-book creator Todd McFarlane knew using the Twistelli sobriquet would cost him millions, he probably would have gone with something else. Last week a St. Louis jury ordered McFarlane to pay $24.5 million to one TONY TWIST, 32, a former NHL enforcer for the St. Louis Blues, who sued McFarlane for using his name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 17, 2000 | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Cheer For Old Glory | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...kind of grand, self-important entrance you haven't seen since Liberace stopped making TV specials. And for the rest of the movie, Wright lives up to that moment with his broadly drawn, carefully shaded performance as Peoples Hernandez, a drug kingpin and the first great movie villain of this millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Wrong Is Mr. Wright | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...plot twists of the first Mission: Impossible. This is a simple story of a guy, a girl, the bad guys and a plot to wipe out humanity while making a killing in biotech stock. Scottish actor Dougray Scott, who last broke hearts in Ever After, turns up as bio-villain Sean Ambrose. Ving Rhames reprises his role as Cruise's computer sidekick, Luther Stickell, and Anthony Hopkins makes an unbilled--and deliciously despicable--appearance as Cruise's boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thandie Makes It Possible | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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