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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 of King Dork is a faux red Catcher cover, with the title and Salinger's name erased and replaced by Portman's. "I always felt a lot of people might have been faking the adulation of it, to impress their parents or their teachers," says Portman. Plus, he knew that...

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

...what the iceberg movie made domestically. She's always delighted to meet people who have never seen it. It's not that she's not proud of her biggest movie. She found a very early treatment of the script the other day, and she had written on the cover "I f___ing LOVE this!" It's just that it proved quite difficult to get off that boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate in The Raw | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...TIME's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated." But to refer to "the world he's created" was just too much. The present state of affairs was created by the terrorists of 9/11, not the President. George R. Ours Petersburg, West Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...third year in a row that Harvard has had one Marshall Scholar. The scholarships, which are only open to U.S. citizens, were founded in 1953 in commemoration of the “humane ideals” of the Marshall Plan. They are funded by the British government and cover university fees and living expenses for two years of study...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Named Marshall Scholar | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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