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...mark the 30th anniversary of the victory of The Sandinista National Liberation Front over the repressive U.S.-backed Somoza dynasty. Nicaragua's continual Christmas theme is also appropriate because President Ortega governs Nicaragua a bit like Santa Claus. Not because he is jolly or has a tummy like a bowl full of jelly (Ortega is very serious and has kept in remarkably good shape for a 63-year-old), but because the Sandinista boss uses gifts to keep people in line, and always double checks his list of who's naughty and who's nice. (Check out a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Where Every Day is Christmas | 7/18/2009 | See Source »

Even after his Tonight career, and when he fell on well-publicized financial hard times recently, McMahon was willing to poke fun at himself, spoofing his troubles this year in a Super Bowl ad for Cash4Gold.com You gotta laugh: that was the message McMahon sent to the public through the end. And though he made a career of his laugh--that big, booming, avuncular laugh--it is to Ed McMahon's credit that he never made it seem like work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ed McMahon | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...Smash CDs followed, and his collaboration with Lionel Richie on the single and video "We Are the World" sold 7.5 million copies in the U.S. and raised more than $60 million for famine relief in Africa. He wowed 'em at the Super Bowl and with spectacular concert tours whose special effects never overwhelmed the slender dude with the gentle demeanor, dervish footwork and nonpareil showmanship. If you were a star in the '80s, you'd want to be Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Michael Jackson's Legacy | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...presence in American gangster lore, and you also have him as portrayed by Johnny Depp, a very inward guy who offers glimpses of being gregarious. Getting that inner turbulence across was a challenge. The one thing about the script that intrigued me was the collision between the rural Dust Bowl and the new, shining, amazing city of Chicago, with all that amazing architecture. You can almost imagine Steinbeck's America, Grapes of Wrath, in stark contrast with the high fashion of Chicago in that period. So the music in that way had a dual origin. (Read TIME's interview with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composer Elliot Goldenthal | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...presents a particular challenge, since riding the cotton pony is nobody's favorite topic of conversation. (Unless you count some feminist academics.) Menstruation remains, if not taboo, then still pretty damn awkward to talk about. Hence the number of euphemisms this story employs. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Tampon Ad: What If Men Used Them? | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

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