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...theater seats tremble, and cannon bursts rock the room as a Civil War battle is played out on multiple moving screens that bob up and down. Welcome to the just opened Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill.--or, as historian John Simon derisively calls it, "Six Flags over Lincoln." The museum, which is scheduled to have its public dedication this week, has weathered years of cost complaints, construction snafus and accusations of mismanagement. Now the museum is open for visitors--and for debate over whether it has done justice to the 16th President or turned him into a theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reimagining Abe | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...preparing an American Masters program about you. Why still do stand-up when it's official--you're a master? The alternative is Sunset Blvd. You sit in a darkened room every day, and Erich von Stroheim comes in and asks you what episode of The Bob Newhart Show you want to watch. I'd rather keep making people laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Newhart | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...words "Ann Coulter lies," you will drown in results. But I didn't find many outright Coulter errors. One of the most popular alleged mistakes pinging around the Web is from her appearance on Canadian TV news in January, when Coulter asserted that "Canada sent troops to Vietnam." Interviewer Bob McKeown said she was wrong. "Indochina?" Coulter tried. McKeown said no. Finally, Coulter said haltingly, "I'll get back to you." "Coulter never got back to us," McKeown triumphantly noted, "but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam." What he didn't mention was that Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ms. Right: ANN COULTER | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

Washington wasn't quite sure what to make of the spindle-shanked blond. "When I first met her," says a fellow conservative, "she was walking around with a black miniskirt and a mink stole, making out with Bob Guccione Jr. in the stairwell." (Coulter dated publisher Guccione, son of the porn mogul, for six months. She says the stairwell story "could be" true, although "I make out in public less often now that I'm publicly recognizable." As for living on chardonnay and cigarettes, Coulter says that's "definitely true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ms. Right: ANN COULTER | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...Women are as smart as men? Have you ever known a man to buy a shirt that buttons up the back? Bob Bowen Powhatan Point, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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