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...star of scores of films, including Some Like it Hot and The Defiant Ones, Tony Curtis now spends his time painting and writing. His latest is American Prince, which details his long career in Tinseltown. Curtis talked to TIME about being an aging actor, hooking up with Marilyn Monroe, and why living well is the best revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actor Tony Curtis | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...were nominated for a Best Actor Oscar alongside Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones. Are you peeved that you never got more respect from the Academy?There were other pictures I made-I don't want to complain-but I feel in my heart that there were other performances I gave that could have easily been nominated. And now that won't ever happen. I'm not doing any movies, and I'm not going to find a movie that's going to be nominated for any awards. So, my dear friends, I sit around in Vegas, with a beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actor Tony Curtis | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...this is one of them, when I think Queen Latifah has the most beautiful face in movies. I'm not sure what's in that smile, but it rarely seems less than radiant, and never more so than here. Hudson, who won an Oscar for Dreamgirls, is stalwart, defiant and winning as Lily's nanny and de facto stepmom. Okonedo, an Oscar nominee for Hotel Rwanda, has a poignant smile that breaks through May's tears like the sun during a storm; of all the strong performances in Bees, hers is the one most likely to attract Academy attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Bees: A Honey of a Film | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...leads in several large red states, including Ohio and Florida. John McCain was already bound by a limited set of combinations to reach 270 electoral votes; now, without a major change in the race's dynamic, he has no clear path. Sarah Palin revitalized her image with a folksy, defiant presentation, and McCain found a way to attack Obama with a smile, but neither performance changed the trajectory of the overall race. Obama and Joe Biden didn't take any big risks, but they didn't have to--and polls uniformly showed that voters thought they were the victors. McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...opportunity is there to move past the 30 year-old images of a defiant and frightening revolutionary Iran, and start encouraging cooperative behavior by engaging with Iran as the swiftly-developing nation and regional power it is," says Bernard Hourcade, an Iran specialist at France's National Center for Scientific Research. "The key is direct American involvement in relations, because renewed ties with the U.S. is what Iran wants most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Conventional Wisdom About Iran | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

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