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...June 25, Michael Jackson's longtime collaborator Kenny Ortega had little time to comprehend his friend's death, let alone grieve over it. Hollywood's hottest choreographer-director went from preparing Jackson's 50-date London concert series to setting the paces of the pop icon's star-studded memorial to directing the behind-the-scenes film of Jackson's rehearsals for the ill-fated tour. This Is It opens on Oct. 28 for a limited two-week run with a simultaneous premiere in 15 cities around the world. Ortega spoke to TIME about the film, which he calls...
...reason he questioned it was because I always smiled when he said it. I said, "Of course you're saying my name right. I love the way you say it. When you say my name, it makes me smile." And he said, "Good - when I say Kenny, it means 'friend.' " He was a special...
...whites have fled more ethnically diverse areas. "They are creating communal pods that cannily preserve a white-bread world," he observes, "a throwback to an imagined past with 'authentic' 1950s values." Like Sacha Baron Cohen, Benjamin can lull people into saying the most appalling things, as with a new friend who tells him, "I never know what to call you. So when I'm around my buddies, I just use the N-word." The author's conclusion: while explicit racism is no longer acceptable, segregation is on the upswing. Racial refugees won't be able to outrun reality, says...
...hill is famous for this - sometimes it is simply called Kite Hill. It is a dusty, rutted place, overlooking the city. "This isn't proper," says Mohammed Ushan, 54, who works at the ministry of construction. "The Municipality of Kabul ought to take better care of this hill." His friend, Aziz Ullah Kukchar, 37, adds that the whole place ought to be developed. "If there was a proper park, and restaurants, and billiards tables, 70% of the people here would not fly kites," he says. "We would charge admission." Kukchar, who says he was in the import-export business...
Somebody who really has been an all-star in Capitol Hill over the last 20 years, but certainly over the last year, on a whole range of issues -- everything from Afghanistan to clean energy -- a great friend, John Kerry. Please give John Kerry a round of applause. (Applause...