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...year-end critics' awards dinners. Another is that Rourke's bio blends with the story of The Wrestler, but with a happier ending. His career has come back from the dead; any award would be like a posthumous prize to someone who is, miraculously, still around to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback | 9/6/2008 | See Source »

...human body. It's not ghoulishness. I believe that it is the central fact of human existence. And yet it's very obvious how art and religion and many other cultural things try to take us away from the body reality - for obvious reasons. Because if you accept the body, you accept mortality, and that is a hugely difficult thing for people to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cronenberg Tries Opera | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...relatively successful - great critical reviews, did respectable business, were understood by Hollywood - and so my stock in Hollywood right now is pretty good. But then if I make another movie like Dead Ringers or Videodrome or Naked Lunch for the next one, my stock will go down. And I accept that. That's part of the game, I don't have any illusions about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cronenberg Tries Opera | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...meant it. In time, Dunphy would take all of the wayward boy's business affairs in hand, not least renegotiating Hirst's split with dealers. Dunphy says Hirst's galleries now accept an arrangement that gives the artist as much as 70% of the sale price, instead of the standard 50%. But even with that advantageous formula, an auction in which Hirst reaps almost all the profits, while merely covering some sundry costs, was too much to resist. He'll still work with dealers, says Dunphy. But "Damien's far enough up the greasy pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job.' JON KLEIN, CNN president, disputing the McCain campaign's claim that Brown's questions were "over the line." McCain later canceled an interview with CNN's Larry King in protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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