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...great actresses, the Queen might be any aging executive, devastated by the insight that her reign has been endured but not embraced. Or any mother who mistakenly took for granted that she would be loved as well as obeyed. Mirren, who won a Tony playing Elizabeth I for HBO, may well deserve an Oscar for this ripe appraisal of Elizabeth II. Her performance shows how an aging monarch can both acknowledge her diminished status and act to correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Royal Family: Inside Edition | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

With a CPA's gray suit and harried face, Black built a fan base as a commentator on The Daily Show. This HBO hour displays his grousing wit and splenetic temperament in full fulmination as he rails against the world and the heavens too. (He's no fan of the Old Testament God.) On his Washington stage, Black naturally has opinions about George W. Bush, who makes him very angry. He's also miffed at the Democrats for not finding a candidate who could defeat Bush in 2004: "It would be like finding a normal person who would lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Standouts of Stand-up Comedy Come to DVD | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...felt bad because he was completely defenseless." His other challengers may not be so lucky. So vitriolic are Boll?s feelings towards the content creators at Ain?t it Cool News -a website capable of generating so much Internet buzz about a film that it was featured in the HBO series Entourage-that when his request to fight Ain't it Cool?s reviewer who slammed BloodRayne was turned, he agreed instead to battle Jeff Sneider, a freelancer for the site who had never even seen one of Boll?s movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'World's Worst Director' Fights Back | 9/23/2006 | See Source »

...tone. It is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, whose guide is a purported TV host and "sixth most famous man in Kazakhstan" of the former Soviet Union. Borat is the nom de guerrilla-humor of Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G. - as HBO viewers know, and many millions more will, when this deeply sick, utterly irresistible film opens in theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Number of seconds nominee Ellen Burstyn appeared (in a flashback) in the HBO movie Mrs. Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 21, 2006 | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

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