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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Those, you might say, were the compass points of last summer's Pixar wonder WALL-E, of which Docter was the original director (before handing the project to Andrew Stanton). There are other similarities between that futurist galactic epic and Up, which arrives in North American theaters Friday after its rapturous reception two weeks ago as the opening-night attraction at the Cannes Film Festival. Both movies are about lonely creatures - a droid left on Earth, a man whose cherished wife has died - taking a perilous trip. Both protagonists are stout and box-shaped and don't talk much. Both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up and Away: Another New High for Pixar | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

Most professional athletes are by definition models of good health. But when pro-football linemen, with their towering builds and sometimes massive girth, lumber onto the field, many people understandably start to wonder: How can these trundling behemoths possibly be healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NFL's Huge Linemen: Healthier Than You Think? | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...wonder that so many Republicans reacted to President Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court Tuesday by arguing that the confirmation process couldn't be rushed: the GOP knows it has been dealt a bad hand, and it's playing for time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP's Initial Tactic on Sotomayor: Play for Time | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

After a survey of the rest of the buffet turned up only healthy, inexpensive options, I began to wonder where my seat was. Turns out you can't really see the game from the buffet area, and it dawned on me that I had been in a room like this before - at Foxwoods Resort Casino. During a brief foray into high-stakes gambling, a friend and I got comped and dove into a mountain of shrimp and lobster tails before stepping out into the casino jacked up on seafood and self-loathing. Well, the Legends Suite is just like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...Technicolor dresses and famously buff bare arms, it's hard not to wonder if Michelle isn't daring us all to just roll with it, to be a little bolder at a time when the country could use all the courage it can muster. "You've got to make choices that make sense for you," she says, "because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently." When prodded, she admits with a wry smile that there are moments when she misses her old, anonymous knock-around days. "It's a lot easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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