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Last week's winner, the shock-mock-doc comedy Brüno, fell a calamitous 73% to about $8.4 million. It's as if the well-liked Borat, the character from Sacha Baron Cohen's previous hit, had come to a party with a new guest - "Say hello to my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Wizardry: Harry Potter's Wand-erful Week | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

The people of Iceland are known for their resilient, go-it-alone character. It is the result of a forbidding geography: endowed with a rugged terrain pockmarked by geysers and volcanoes, their island stretches into the Arctic Circle, and is nearly 620 miles (1,000 km) from mainland Europe.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland's Urgent Bid to Join the E.U. | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

What do you think has been Harry's greatest misstep or failure in judgment? - Susan Bevins, Winter Park, Fla. Susan Bevins, you have asked a question no journalist has ever asked me. I think the way he treated his friends a couple of films ago was quite questionable. They're...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Daniel Radcliffe | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

Your fictional characters are often very similar to you. In the private-eye story "Bored to Death," the main character's name is actually yours. How many of these characters are really you? When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writer Jonathan Ames | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

Tell me a little bit about your HBO show coming out in September. It takes the basic premise of the short story, which is about a writer named Jonathan Ames who puts an ad on Craigslist and becomes a private detective. It stars Jason Schwartzman playing Jonathan Ames. I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writer Jonathan Ames | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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