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...hour screen test for Iron Man. "You run [the scene] until your subconscious can cough it up with ease," Downey says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably improvise a couple of versions that are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Downey Jr.: Back from the Brink | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...ending democratic apathy among students (and possibly faculty members) is an increase in responsibility, power, and respect. Students have already recognized that the Empire of the Central Administration has maligned them—will the Faculty come around as well? We have some preeminent professors here that write about democracy and its discontents (hi, Professor Sandel). I only hope that their research gets applied to Harvard before everyone forgets the opportunities that a College community provides for experimenting with its governance...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: School’s Out For Summer | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

...home and whom another cop calls "L.A.'s deadliest white boy," fits into this latter category. "We're the police," he tells a greener officer (Chris Evans) who partners with him. "We can do whatever the hell we want." And, later: "Truth doesn't matter, only how we write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Kings: L.A.P.D.-lirious | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Fiction that is true is the only type that anyone should read or write,” Kushner said, referencing Melville among others. “But all telling of the truth for the historian and the artist is very, very hard...It is a voyage, not an arrival, with shipwreck virtually guaranteed...

Author: By Madeleine A. Bennett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kushner Draws Crowd To Historical Fiction Talk | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...some people’s tastes, but they’re never less than sincere and are regularly laugh-out-loud funny. No longer the elitist band that mocked Fugazi and Black Flag on “The International Tweexcore Underground,” they are prepared to write songs about concrete events and their own experiences. If they keep it going, there may soon be a lot more people adding exclamation marks to their surnames...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Los Campesinos! | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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