Muhammad Ali

July 10, 2009 at 6:23am PST
Photos: Sony Pictures Classics

Soul Power isn't a documentary so much as it is a document. Director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte was originally hired as an editor on Leon Gast's brilliant, Academy Award-winning film When We Were Kings, the story surrounding “The Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary boxing battle in 1974. The movie was culled from over 125 hours of footage and, when the assembly was over, Levy-Hinte couldn’t live with the knowledge that the remaining film was destined to lay dormant in a vault for the rest of time.

March 30, 2009 at 7:02am PST
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Michael Phelps was snapped arriving at Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XV at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday.

The annual Fight Night, which was hosted by Reba McEntire and featured a performance by Jon Bon Jovi, has raised $52 million for various charities in its fifteen years.

Was someone sporting a bit of a goggle tan?

If anyone knows something about doing a fierce butterfly, it’s Mikey.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

February 13, 2009 at 8:08am PST
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Halle Berry was snapped entering the NAACP Image Awards, held last night at the Shrine Auditorium in LA, wearing one of the four gowns she donned as part of her hosting duties, which she shared with Tyler Perry.

Damn, Gina!

Berry, who gave birth to her daughter, Nahla, less than a year ago, and gets to go home every night to smokeshow baby daddy Gabriel Aubry, was an absolute vision. Some girls have all the luck.

December 3, 2008 at 1:02pm PST
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Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong…

Michael Phelps.

For the first time in the fifty-five years Sports Illustrated has bestowed the title of Sportsman of the Year on an outstanding athlete, this year it went to a swimmer; our future baby daddy, Mikey Phelps.

It’s “not for the victory alone that he is honored. Rather, it is for the quality of his effort and the manner of his striving,” that an SI Sportsman is chosen (we have to ask, is there ever a SportsWoman?). 

F. Gary Gray's latest effort, Law Abiding Citizen, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, is a knockout! Exhilirating, wry and breathcatchingly paced, it's a stellar accomplishment for everyone involved. Hell yeah you should see it!

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Scott Hicks, the director of Shine, and Clive Owen teamed up for this gloriously beautiful if underwhelming project. It's not that it's bad, it's just not that memorable and with such supreme talent attached, I was hoping for and expecting a lot more.

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Oh, Diablo Cody, why'd you have to do it? I love you so long...and then you made this. Megan Fox does what she always does, she looks hot. At least there's that. Sophmoric, unfunny and obsessively idiosyncratic, it's a painful movie going experience.



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Chocolate and peanut butter. Spaghetti and meatballs. Bobcat Goldthwait and profanity. Two great tastes that taste great together. Gone is the Bobcat of the Police Academy movies and in his stead is a fantastic writer-director who's able to orchestrate the most brilliantly, hilarious vulgarity imaginable. World's Greatest Dad is a fantastic dark comedy (very dark) that features Robin Williams' best performance since Good Will Hunting. See it!

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