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...last three weeks of picketing and chanting in Hollywood has had a certain period charm. As it turns out, writers dress a lot like steelworkers. When the writers and producers resume talks Nov. 26 to try to end a strike that has shut down hit shows like Grey's Anatomy and 30 Rock and big-budget movies like The Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons, the major sticking point will be pay for work distributed via new media. Such a contemporary issue calls for updating strike techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Striking Writers Speak! | 11/24/2007 | See Source »

...home turf, Labor announced in February that its candidate in Bennelong would be Maxine McKew, a distinguished, high-profile former television journalist. The partner of Bob Hogg, a former national secretary of the Labor Party, McKew still doesn't get close to Howard for political experience; but her charm, eloquence and good looks make her a formidable candidate, and she's forced the Prime Minister to spend more time pressing the flesh in Bennelong than he or his anxious party would have liked. The pressure has taken a toll: Howard has been uncharacteristically irritable for a good part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australian PM's Election Woes | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...what kind of P.M. he would be.

charm, but has proved a steady No. 2 to Howard despite an uncertain performance during the scandal over wheat-export bribes to Saddam's Iraq. Key National issues such as the drought and water will play a large role in this poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Frontbenchers | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...Michaelis runs the risk of exposing too much about the creator and his underlying insecurities, fears, and shortcomings. People, after all, are usually not interested in seeing the puppeteer’s face when they watch a puppet show. Unfortunately, though Michaelis does not wear the tread on the charm of the comic series, he fails to do the same for Schulz. By the end, Schulz has made the short transition from shy, self-deprecating child to a humble but lonely man. Almost as an echo of a sentiment expressed by Charlie Brown—“I don?...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Uneven Tale of Two Charlies | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...notes for Steinmeier to miss, however. Supported by Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ministers Make Music and Play Politics | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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