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...detective show, The X Files spanned the Bill Clinton Era - or, roughly, the time between the two attacks on the World Trade Center - when America's political and social life was so placid that we had to invent our own monsters. Then 9/11 exploded in our faces, and the horror shows were on the nightly news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Israel than at lending support to Waldheim. The dispatch was not picked up by Moscow newspapers. Meanwhile, the President-elect set about the difficult task of trying to heal campaign wounds before his inauguration on July 8. In his first postelection press conference, Waldheim, 67, declared, ''The horror of the Holocaust must not be forgotten,'' and pledged to fight anti-Semitism. That same day, his wife Elisabeth confirmed that she had once been a Nazi. The defeated Socialist Party had its own set of problems. Although the Austrian presidency is a largely ceremonial post, and real power rests with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA LAST HURRAHS Few smiles after a big victory | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...concept of the "midnight movie" began to change from a Rocky Horror Picture Show cult phenomenon into a routine promotional gimmick in May 1999, when the long-awaited Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace premiered one minute after midnight to hordes of fans who had waited days in line for the opportunity to get a first look. Those showings grossed $7 million. Episode II grossed $6.2 million during its opening midnight screenings and Episode III scored an astounding $16.5 million. The final Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King earned $8 million at midnight screenings. Each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Knight: Lines, but Not for Tickets | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...this Chinese city's conception of itself. Many, particularly among the South Asian community, have roots here that predate some of Hong Kong's Cantonese people by generations, yet they are often made to feel like outsiders. Most Africans and South Asians living in Hong Kong have their own horror stories of racism, from humiliating police searches on the street to being blocked from entering clubs and bars. It's not out of the ordinary for an Indian banker to be denied a flat for rent on the grounds that the landlord doesn't want his property to smell like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HK's Half-Baked Anti-Racism Law | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

Colbert is the series' rock, and a straightman contrast to the constantly yammering Person, his driver. As the stoic enigma and the hopped-up smart-ass speed through the desert landscape, you could almost take Kill for a surreal road comedy. The drama of this outstanding miniseries, and its horror, comes from knowing where that road leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater of the Absurd | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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