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...speak as one who invested early in Rourke futures. Reviewing Barry Levinson's 1982 buddy comedy Diner, I wrote that "the prize in this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages to be both shy and cunning, Rourke has the potential of a young Jack Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback | 9/6/2008 | See Source »

...Peach Pit is now serving tall skinny lattes. On Beverly Hills, 90210, the suspiciously unlined mother of all teen soaps, which ran from 1990 to 2000, even the richest kids were happy with an after-school Coke at the retro diner. Not so on just plain 90210, an extreme makeover of the '90s show debuting Sept. 2 on the CW network with new characters and - in teen years - a geologic era's worth of social and cultural updates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating Beverly Hills, 90210 | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...stressed, vulnerable Clinton tears up at a New Hampshire diner; the media are suspicious, but voters seem sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Denver | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Some waiters see a colleague acting inelegant and they'll say, "This is not a truck stop," or "This isn't the diner." Diner has unfortunately become a pejorative term. And of course waiters from snooty high-end places sometimes put on airs. They start to feel that because they work in close proximity to money or power that they've got it themselves. They develop foie-gras taste on a liverwurst budget. They won't spend money on education or new shoes, but they'll spend $400 on going out to eat. And waiters and kitchen staff tend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of an Angry Waiter | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...first type is reflected in Ed Hecimovich, 41, who had just sat down for a greasy- spoon lunch with his wife and three young children when the Secret Service swarmed Schoop's Diner in Portage, Ind., and Obama swept in for a cheeseburger. Hecimovich, a pipe fitter who twice voted for President Bush, asked the candidate about the economy, his top concern. Obama's answers impressed the independent, but he's still undecided. "I like that Obama stands for change," Hecimovich says. "But he doesn't have the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Economic Challenge | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

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