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"On the whole, I'm sorry to say, we're a failed species." Thus pronounceth Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), a quantum physicist by trade and a raging grouch by temperament. "I'm a man with a huge worldview," this self-proclaimed genius says. "I'm surrounded by microbes." In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Latest: Works Like a Charm | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Boris is the king of pessimists, but into each reign some life must fall. It comes in the pretty package of Melody St. Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood), who might be as old as 20 and who's run away from her Mississippi family to end up homeless in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Latest: Works Like a Charm | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Not again, we hear you groaning. Another Woody Allen movie that propagandizes crabby old guys attracting cute young women. This is not a comedy scenario; it's a criminal offense, right? Except that in Whatever Works, Allen has taken his usual ingredients--mismatched pairings, the collision of the bitter and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Latest: Works Like a Charm | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Conspiracy theories were bound to flourish given Wicks' political affiliations and the Telegraph's own establishment credentials. Once nicknamed "The Torygraph," one of the daily's most famous editors served as a Conservative Cabinet minister; among its current star columnists is its former reporter, the Conservative Mayor of London, Boris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labour Pains: Gordon Brown is Running Out of Time | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

In 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power upon the death of his predecessor in the Soviet Union, many Republicans - both Reagan Administration officials and conservative intellectuals - dismissed him as a phony reformer who was only trying to save the Soviet regime. Yet Gorbachev found himself setting in motion processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Three-Part Case on Iran | 6/20/2009 | See Source »

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