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Inglourious Basterds - the anomalies in spelling are to distinguish Tarantino's film from a not-so-hot 1978 Italian movie variation on The Dirty Dozen - convenes Resistance fighters from Germany and France and soldiers from Britain and the U.S. in a scheme to destroy the Third Reich. (Apparently the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Stalking History and Hitler | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

Billing himself as Rhubarb Red, Paul soon had a country-music act out of Chicago. He played harmonica and guitar and, between numbers, peddled rube humor. By the early '30s he was making $1,000 a week at the country stuff, but in the bustling Chicago music scene, there was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

Help arrived in an e-mail from the Viking Range Corp.: Would I like to try its new 30-in. gravity-feed smoker? Faster than you can say baby back ribs, I drove down to a Viking distributor in Hayward, Calif., where a fellow named Mike Love gave me a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Grill | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

The Lucky Ones Directed by Neil Burger; rated R; out now Back from Iraq, three soldiers--a career Army man (Tim Robbins), a cute hillbilly (Rachel McAdams) and a guy made impotent by shrapnel (Michael Peņa)--take the life lessons all road movies must provide. Each plot turn is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

I have been following the U.S. presidential campaign with great interest. Would it not be apt to refer to Hillary and Bill's efforts as the "Hillbilly" campaign? Rihann Koekemoer, Johannesburg

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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