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...nightmare where you walk into a classroom and a teacher you've never seen sits you down for the final exam. I am not a professional interviewer, not even a gifted amateur, and had no way of recording DiCaprio's responses to whatever questions I might think up in the next few minutes. Fortunately, Amanda Vender of the TIME News Desk found me a tape recorder and expertly hooked it up to my office phone. Luckily too, DiCaprio was agreeable and articulate, ready to discuss his two big Christmas films, Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Steven Spielberg...
...typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual, its audience...
...trend has spread quickly from restaurant kitchens to amateur cooks, and local markets are now stocking such heirloom vegetables as swedes (a kind of turnip with a yellowish root and firm flesh), parsnips and turnip tops, and herbs like purslane and sorrel. The new favorite is the white-flowering ramson, also called broad-leaved garlic because of its pungent odor. Its sales are as robust as its flavor. "A few years ago we had a demand of a mere kilo a week," reports Abdessalem Najar, a vegetable and fruit vendor at Cologne's central market. "Now we sell three...
Joined at the Heart uses the Gores’ own story and interviews with a dozen families to discuss issues facing modern families. The accompanying book of photographs, The Spirit of Family, features both amateur and established photographers such as Annie Leibovitz and Nicholas Nickson...
...ultimate paradox, the teams that supposedly best represent the amateur idea—sports without any material reward—wind up entertaining the issue most saddeningly reminiscent of the professional ranks: contraction...