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...Schulberg was most certainly a somebody who did a lot of writing over a career that spanned Hollywood's golden age and ended Wednesday with his death at 95, but none of his words packed a punch quite like that legendary exchange from On the Waterfront, the 1954 dockside drama he wrote for director Elia Kazan. In 2005, the "contender" line was chosen as No. 3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movie quotes, right after Clark Gable's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone With the Wind and Brando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budd Schulberg, Boss of the Brando Waterfront | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...times their openers. People saw these movies, told their friends they were funny and made them hits. The new movie will be hard pressed to duplicate that word-of-mouth salesmanship. For most audiences, Apatow's 2-hr. 24-min. attempt to encase a James L. Brooks-style comedy-drama in an overflowing condom of penis jokes didn't work. Instead of a Terms of Endearment, it's more like Brooks' last flop movie. Yep, Spanglish. (See TIME's video "Should Judd Apatow Be on TIME's Cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Apatow's Funny Peculiar | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

SUNDAY Time to check off the cultural big hitters. To taste the city's glorious Baroque past, feast your eyes on the chiaroscuro drama of the paintings adorning the Carthusian monastery of La Certosa di San Martino, tel: (39-081) 229 4502. Don't miss the stunning presepe (Nativity crib) that is one of the finest examples of this local artisanal craft. Unwind over Sunday lunch at La Scialuppa, www.lascialuppa. it, with views of the fishing vessels bobbing in the harbor. This should fuel your journey around the vast National Archaeological Museum, marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it, and its window on the world buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Do Naples | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...Well, all of us look dull in comparison to Sarah Palin, so that's not really a fault of Sean Parnell's...Some people are weary of the drama." - Alaska Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis. (KTUU, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...plays about the black experience in America. One of her most highly regarded works, A Star Ain't Nothin' but a Hole in Heaven, portrayed a college-bound woman as she becomes aware of the price civil rights activists paid for the opportunities she is afforded. In 1977 the drama earned Mason the first Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judi Ann Mason | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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