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...thing. It's where Charlie Chaplin shot a two-reeler, Work, in 1915, and where Harold Lloyd made many of his silent comedies. By the late '40s it had become a seductively seedy location for the film noir crowd: Act of Violence, Hollow Triumph, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Criss Cross, Douglas Sirk's Shockproof, Joseph Losey's remake of M and Kiss Me Deadly were all filmed there. The 1999 L.A. Confidential went to Bunker Hill to capture the majestic sleaze of the city circa 1953, Now a Frank Gehry building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, looms over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exiles on Indie Street | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

...headed to bed. I hadn’t, Hawthorne-style, lost Faith. I decided I wanted to take off these criss-crossed tights and wear pink ribbons...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rocky End | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...criss-crossed the country for the past year, routinely putting in 16-hour days on the campaign trail, the 71-year-old John McCain has shown the physical endurance of a much younger man. But in the great microscope of American democracy, it's not enough for him to simply announce, with the support of his doctors, that he is in good health. Like any presidential candidate, he is expected to run for office as an open book, and prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Healthy Prognosis | 5/23/2008 | See Source »

...Three decades ago, while some of his compatriots waged a fierce independence struggle from the jungles of East Timor, Ramos-Horta took a less violent path. The now-58-year-old, who earned a Peace Studies degree at Antioch University in the U.S., tirelessly criss-crossed the globe, campaigning for an end to Indonesia's brutal annexation of his homeland. His passionate diplomacy eventually paid off. Six years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Timor's President Shot by Rebels | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...same time, as he criss-crosses Florida, Romney has allowed his inner dweeb to surface. Perhaps from exhaustion, he is given to say whatever comes into his head, even if the surprising candor betrays a man who would be laughed out of any bar in most American cities. "Who let the dogs out? Hoo hoo," he rapped last week in Jacksonville, while posing for a photo with a group of black teenagers. "Hey buddy! How's it going? What's happening? You got some bling bling here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romney's Inner Geek Comes Out | 1/27/2008 | See Source »

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