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...speech, in which he didn't just warn, "if you start playing violins I will tear this place apart," but also "refused" to thank his wife, producer and director; smartly done, sir. Streep, who followed the Best Song winner T-Bone Burnett, got a laugh by musing, "I want to change my name to T-Bone. T-Bone Streep." She also offered the pertinent observation that "I've in my long career played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." The winner for Most Incoherent Speech would have to go to Drew Barrymore, whose thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron's Avatar Takes Golden Globe Glory | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...already converted, games can be learning environments that would be impossible in an ordinary classroom. The creators of People Power: The Game of Civil Resistance, expected to launch in February, designed their product to be used to train nonviolent activists. "We want to provide people with a chance to make decisions and see what the results are, but without getting killed or thrown in prison," says U.S.-based Steve York, the game's project manager. (See pictures of World of Warcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Video Games Save the World? | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty. I don't really think of that as an acting career but more my father pushing me never to become an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jason Reitman | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like The Godfather or Dog Day Afternoon or The Graduate. You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jason Reitman | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

This is a question that comes up with all my films. People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jason Reitman | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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