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...here is that the two heroes engaged in the movie's requisite action scenes - the hand-to-hand combat, the car chase, the climactic military-style battle ending in a giant explosion - are klutzy boobs. Dale and Saul have the need and instinct to fight, drive and run, but none of the skills. One sequence, the movie's lamest, is either a demonstration of this theory or an undercutting commentary on it. As they stagger through the woods searching for a cell phone Saul has tossed away, Rogen and Franco take a stab at a slapstick routine but possess neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express: Very Dope | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...with their cheese-and-pickle sandwiches in the station canteen, discuss the denouement. Real policing isn't like that, they say. It's messier - and more dramatic. Their boss, Hackney Borough Commander Steve Dann, agrees. That's why he "can't bear to watch police shows," he says. "They drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case for Scotland Yard | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...starting their August recess until they do. One member even drove his minivan, family included, all the way from Illinois, arriving at 3 a.m., so he could get his turn to lambaste the Democrats for not allowing a vote on a bill to expand offshore drilling. To drive their point home, members waved empty gas cans, charts of fuel prices and blown-up photos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of High Gas | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...fluorescent lightbulbs. We can unplug our televisions, computers and phone chargers when we're not using them. We can seal our windows, install more insulation and adjust our thermostats so that we waste less heat and air-conditioning. We can use more-efficient appliances, build more-efficient homes and drive more-efficient cars, preferably with government assistance. And, yes, we can inflate our tires and tune our engines, as Republican governors Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Charlie Crist of Florida have urged, apparently without consulting the RNC. While we're at it, we can cut down on idling, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

...sponsorships and worldwide sales of replica shirts and other branded merchandise: a couple of years ago, Real Madrid surpassed the earnings of Manchester United, in part because the Spanish club earned 42% of its revenues from commercial income, compared with Manchester United's 27% from the same source. The drive to raise commercial revenues has prompted Real Madrid to seek celebrity stars such as David Beckham (and now Ronaldo), knowing that their presence on the team can sell hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of replica shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's Billion-Dollar Players | 8/3/2008 | See Source »

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