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Here's a magic glimpse into the future of movies. A big blockbuster opens. Some people see it in sparkling digital clarity on wraparound screens in ultraswank theaters; others watch the same movie the same day on an 8-ft.-wide screen in their home media center; still others get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

In the late '20s, when talking pictures replaced the silents, theaters converted to sound within two years. But the coming of sound was immediately and immensely popular. Today, although films shown on the giant IMAX screens make money and although computer-made animated features have been spanking the butts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

The genius of late 20th century entrepreneurism was to get people to pay a lot for things they were used to getting cheap (coffee) or free (water). A quarter-century ago, Hollywood made most of its money from showing films in theaters. Now the biggest bucks come from DVDs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

Why do I feel so lousy? That's what Margaret Hillesheim, a grandmother of three, wondered when she woke up in her suburban Minneapolis, Minn., home a few weeks ago. She had an ugly cough and a stifling case of sniffles. What Hillesheim, 56, didn't have was an inclination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get a Checkup In Aisle 3 | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

As far as architecture is concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Curveballs Are In Play | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

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