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...turns out to be more of a plot point than a character. His wealth derives from composing commercial jingles, but his heart belongs to his former ambitions to be guitarist in a rock band. But the chaste attraction that springs up between him and Juno, and his defection from his marriage, which briefly jeopardizes the adoption, turn out to be rather beside the movie's real point, which is to make us admire Juno's unconquerable spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juno: No False Notes | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

Gamers sometimes get pegged, incorrectly, as alienated and antisocial. When you play Rock Band, you get to have a good time with real fellow human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mock and Roll | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...many people under 30 know that before Ozzy Osbourne was a TV star, he was a musician? Rock Band has 58 songs from five decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mock and Roll | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...many games these days focus on graphics instead of the fundamentals of game design. Rock Band is fun because it has great game play and a great interface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mock and Roll | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...comes of faithful stock: his parents met at Wheaton College, known as the Evangelical Harvard. But his first ambition was to be David Letterman. ("The birth of irony," he jokes. "The Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hipper-Than-Thou Pastor | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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