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For much of the film, the tone of the two main characters are more or less believable repositories of toxic sadness and perplexed good will. Dafoe's calming, wooing voice (he could rake the Gabriel Byrne role as the sympathetic shrink on HBO's In Treatment) has an effect on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antichrist: Von Trier's Porno Horror Rhapsody | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

Collins, a college librarian with a lifelong love of cooking shows, gives a decade-by-decade breakdown of the evolution of TV cooking as a dead-accurate social barometer. From providing helpful hints for homemakers in the 1950's, catering to the lavish lifestyles and culinary excess of the 80...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of TV Cooking | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

• You get to watch 60 minutes of the most in-shape athletes on the planet rocketing across the surface of a giant diamond. • People literally walk on water! Last guy to popularize water-walking got a religion built around him. That guy was Rocket Richard; the religion is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

How did that turn into Pygmy? I liked the idea of writing a character who is kind of a cipher and isn't readily explained the moment you meet him. This allows everyone who meets Pygmy and interacts with him to project their worst prejudices, self-righteousness and bigotry onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

In Davies' adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's The Neon Bible, the central character says, "If you were different from anybody else in town, you had to get out." In one sense, Davies escaped his youth; in another, he keeps returning. And his imaginative understanding of it hits the viewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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