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Children is best enjoyed if one doesn't take it too seriously, though. (Sarandon plays a juicily over-the-top villainess, in a getup that makes her look like an evil B-52s singer.) You could write an encyclopedia detailing all the Tolkienesque mythology, invented religions and backstory behind the Dune novels--in fact, someone did--but the script does a good job of illustrating the action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Desert Sequel | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...Given the well-documented link between psychiatric disorders and a desire for cosmetic surgery," write the authors of the study in the British Medical Journal, "the increased risk for death from suicide may reflect a greater prevalence of psychopathology." That may sound harsh, but it may also represent an opportunity for early intervention if surgeons spot underlying psychological problems among candidates for implants. This doesn't prove, of course, that there is any direct causal link between the implants--or the desire to have them--and suicidal tendencies. Sometimes a D cup is just a D cup. --By David Bjerklie

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERILS OF ENHANCEMENT: Do Implants Trigger Suicide? | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated, as his hero had a dozen years earlier, to the university's famed Footlights drama society. Improbably, he ran into Cleese in a London Underground station, introduced himself and soon was writing for the Python crew. That led to assignments on the Dr. Who sci-fi TV drama and a chance to write an original BBC radio series. The result, Hitchhiker, was a sensation, and before long Adams was amassing fast cars, dangerous women and the world's largest collection of left-handed guitars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guide to Adams' Galaxy | 3/16/2003 | See Source »

...first time I actually had a model of writing that fit with the idea of what I wanted to write,” Davidson says. Davidson started work on her novel after graduation, though it would be another six years until it took a form similar to the version that appears in print...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: History, Sex in Alum's Novel | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...immediate future, Mendenhall says he plans to record some songs for a new album slated for 2004, write more music while visiting Japan and start another tour. At the moment, though, the band continues their current tour with Carissa’s Wierd. And to keep himself busy on the road, Mendenhall says he’ll be playing Playstation 2 and reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Prom Promises Entertaining Emotion | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

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