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No, the thing that sets Kennedy apart, in an international context, is neither his character nor his family: it is that he had a long and productive career as a legislator. The record of his achievements in the Senate, over 47 years, is immense - groundbreaking laws on education, health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: An American Legislator | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

I love the Saturday Night Live sketches. In fact, I was extremely disappointed when Will left. We've never had any contestants as ornery as the Sean Connery character that Darrell Hammond portrays. I've been asked how I would feel if we had Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy! I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Alex Trebek | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

That's quite a feat in Up in the Air, since his character, Ryan Bingham, is a management consultant hired by other companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. He's a fire-man; he keeps his job by relieving other people of theirs. And he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Clooney responds to this unusual freedom with the sharpest, most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, as he has acknowledged, this is a portrait of a character not far from his own: a traveling man with scores of women in his past, riding high on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Not that the Coen brothers - who were raised in an academic Jewish family in Minneapolis, and were 13 and 10 respectively when the movie takes place - are self or other-hating Jews. But as filmmakers (and Oscar-winners, last year, for No Country for Old Men), they've always enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers' Jewish Question | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

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