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...mistaken for a software programmer or bookshop owner. In an untucked polo shirt and faded jeans, he looks relaxed - comfortable, even. This is hardly the demeanor devotees expect of a man celebrated not only as a hugely influential force in post-punk music, but also as the co-creator of some of the most deliciously gloomy tracks ever to chart. Yet, after 25 years as guitarist and front man for the band New Order, Sumner is entitled to kick back. Emerging in 1980 from Manchester's new-wave legends Joy Division, New Order pillaged and adapted rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Higher Order | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...March 7 episode of the sitcom Two and a Half Men, creator Chuck Lorre inserted a statement, which flashed onscreen for a second, protesting that CBS had made him trim a scene that showed the naked back of a young woman--a common enough sight on crime dramas and, say, shampoo commercials. "My problem," he wrote, "is knowing that I work in an industry, or perhaps I should say a culture, that is more comfortable showing a dead naked body than a live one." Says David Nevins, president of Imagine Entertainment Television, which produces 24 and Arrested Development: "The climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...Free Expression, calls this "regulation by raised eyebrow. If it goes too far, it gets out of hand. Then the government is at risk of acting beyond its constitutional powers." And that chill can have effects far beyond what the FCC is empowered to do directly. Says Shield creator Shawn Ryan: "There will be things that we will never see, that are victims of this mind-set. Nobody is really brave enough to take away the shows that people love. But it will have an effect on shows that the networks look at and decide aren't even worth producing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...twists on old genres are vibrant enough to make the project worthwhile. Perhaps predictably, these stories are from the best-known creators—including Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man), bestselling novelist Glen David Gould (Carter Beats the Devil) and legendary graphic novel creator Will Eisner (A Contract With God), whose last story before his recent death recounts a meeting between The Escapist and Eisner’s own The Spirit...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plot Leaves Chabon's Escapist in a Bind | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...series’ first-ever installment, by übermensch Chabon himself, shows the passing of the golden key that confers powers from the Escapist to a protégé who takes on his mentor’s mantle. Again, the creator utilizes a familiar form in an unconventional fashion in order to mock conventions while still honoring them...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plot Leaves Chabon's Escapist in a Bind | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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