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...Damon has said he's pleased to be playing a bad guy, but of course he's playing a bad guy playing a good guy. (He had a similar role, of the charming swine, in The Talented Mr. Ripley.) What's true about Colin's nature is that he's the man on the rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faithful Departed | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...Departed -- A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-- cinema dirty-cop classic Infernal Affairs--marks the third collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio but the first between Scorsese and his friend of 30 years, Jack Nicholson. And Matt Damon takes the role of the bad guy--a rarity for him. During The Departed's New York City premiere, all four sat down for the most obscenity-redacted conversation in the history of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang's All Here | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

NICHOLSON: I just thought my guy was written a little too classy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang's All Here | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...January, after he was indicted and there were rumors -which turned out to be correct-that Abramoff was in several photos at the White House, Bush said at a news conference, "I, frankly, don't even remember having my picture taken with the guy... I don't know him." At the time, White House officials also suggested that Abramoff had little influence or contact with them. The report cites more than 400 instances of Abramoff's team lobbying the White House. This is a one-sided account though, as it relies on e-mails from Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Close for Comfort with Abramoff | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...Apparently, foreign names are so utterly out of the question that most people don't even bother trying to bribe the guy at the government records office, where you register your child's birth. Like me, not everyone is aware of this in advance. An unsuspecting friend of mine tried to register his newborn daughter as Juliette Farah, and was told this was "impossible." After a frustrating back and forth during which only the word "impossible" was repeated, he finally told the clerk that "Juliette was Imam Reza's mother." This mocking invocation of a Shi`ite religious figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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