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Though Poundstone denies doing so intentionally, she manages to wring considerable humor out of being a felon (one of her best-received jokes is a line about being an important element of her Neighborhood Watch). "All I want is to be entertaining," she says. "I don't have any great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Standing Back Up | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

Coming into Athens, 86 of the record 202 participating countries had never won a medal of any kind, and the loudest cheers went to those who made national history, however small or troubled their nation. Women sprinters from Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia and Bahrain--whose Rokia Al Ghasra ran in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fever Pitch | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

These are the premises of three recent movies, Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers, by the French director Patrice Leconte, and one feels obliged to advise Hollywood to beat a path to his door. The man invents better mousetraps than anyone in the American industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of Love and Taxes | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Michael Blakemore?s direction gives the piece a racing pulse, as if to underline that this is a comedy of duplicity. As Frayn?s classic farce ?Noises Off? showed the performance of a play on stage, then from backstage, ?Democracy? reveals the public face of Brandt?s Ostpolitik and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: London Bridges the World | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

What happens when a Prada-loving, Pilates-driven wife and mother from Manhattan trades places with a woodchopping, school-bus-driving, working-class mom from rural New Jersey? Not exactly what you'd expect. Welcome to the premiere episode of Wife Swap, ABC's riveting examination of family values (Wednesdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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