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...Pulp Fiction, the Palme d'Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work - the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof - Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he's created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire. (See pictures of the Cannes 2009 red carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino and the Jews Defeat Hitler! | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...Double and undercover agents fill out the movie's other main plots. A German-born English officer, Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender, of Hunger and Fish Tank), is sent by his OSS superior (Mike Myers in a low-key guest spot) to hook up in France with starlet Von Hammersmark, and thus get close enough to Hitler, Goering and Goebbels to kill them and end the war. (Two of the Reich's most beloved actresses, Zarah Leander and Olga Chekova, were later thought to be secret agents for the U.S.S.R.) Hicox and the actress rendezvous in a French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino and the Jews Defeat Hitler! | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...health-care setting, protecting caregivers from sick patients - both in hospitals and at home - and a national shortage could impact these front-line responders most severely. "Much of what is contained in the Strategic National Stockpile are vaccines and medicines," including 50 million doses of Tamiflu, says CDC spokesperson Von Roebuck, noting that more medical supplies must be purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Pandemic Fear: A Shortage of Surgical Masks | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up, and you see people flying through the air.' PETER VON DE VORST, Dutch journalist, after a driver plowed his car into spectators at a royal parade in Holland, killing seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...baptized here, met my husband here, and had his funeral here,” said service attendant Ruby I. Von Dwornick, her voice breaking as she stood before the remaining walls of the church. “It was heartbreaking to see it be destroyed...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mormon Church Goes Up in Flames | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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