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...these movies found their audiences through word of mouth. Transformers 2 got its gigantic turnout through brand recognition and auteur pull. No question: when director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg get out their toys to play, people will pay to watch - even if it's a not-very-interactive video game in which the stars (Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox), and the audience too, are essentially passive onlookers at a 'bot convention where fights keep breaking out. For 2½ hours. The machine-made movie attracted nearly 30 million North Americans in the past few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Transformers Rule | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...downloaded from YouTube. The audience sang a verse each of "America, the Beautiful," "My Country 'tis of Thee," and "God Bless America," then watched a video bit from the late comedian Red Skelton in which he invokes one of his former teachers who broke down the Pledge of Allegiance word by word. Pagano then asked the crowd to stand and led them in reciting the Pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day that Guns Came to Church in Louisville | 6/28/2009 | See Source »

...only it) on fire; the magicians then challenge the audience to embrace the ambiguity of the illusion and to understand that, regardless, the Bill of Rights remains. Later, on another video, they parse the language of the Second Amendment and quibble with those who quibble over punctuation around the word "people" and their right to bear arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day that Guns Came to Church in Louisville | 6/28/2009 | See Source »

...frazzled wife of preacher Robert Duvall, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award instead of a Golden Globe. That citation indicates how the once incandescent star had accommodated herself to renown of diminished wattage. In the public eye, she was still Farrah Fawcett, but the operative word was not still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farrah Fawcett: The Golden Girl Who Didn't Fade | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

Buchanan, Pat • Republican conference proposing support of English-only initiatives as a way to attract blue-collar Democrats is co-hosted by, along with white nationalist Peter Brimelow, under a banner with the word conference spelled conferenece

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

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