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Portman argues that simply writing rock songs made him uniquely qualified to write a book for both teens and adults, a literary Gilmore Girls. "Rock 'n' roll is teenage music. But you don't stop listening to the Who when you're 20," he says. "Our entire popular culture's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Revenge of the Dork | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Even after the cutting and streamlining, the book is deeply nuanced--a teen novel in the way that Mark Twain wrote teen novels. Or J.D. Salinger. In fact, the punk conceit of King Dork is that the main character rails against "the cult of Catcher in the Rye." The cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Revenge of the Dork | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

That last is actually the more interesting question, though not for business reasons. After Richards' slur, the analysis emphasized how "lovable" his character Kramer was. But Seinfeld wasn't universally loved. The most popular show among white viewers, it was a distant runner-up among blacks, and minorities criticized it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: The Kramer in All of Us | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Toasting in the new year with Champagne has become a tradition around the globe, and that makes for heady times for producers of the famous French bubbly, who do most of their annual business in the last few weeks of December.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Big houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Sips | 11/23/2006 | See Source »

Being on a location where people are suffering and playing a cutthroat opportunist who is taking advantage of the situation there was disturbing. It really affected me, just being in that environment and playing that character.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Leonardo DiCaprio | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

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