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...publishing history (her latest pick, Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them, was shipped to bookstores just last week). So when even the hint of a possible Oprah Winfrey Film Club arose at this year's Toronto Film Festival, reporters took note. "A film club," the TV icon said in response to a question at a Sept. 13 press conference. "That's a thought." (Read TIME's cover story on Oprah and her film Beloved...
...flawed), but one who tried to live life in the most honest way she could, with only the best interest of others at heart. In her death, she has once and for all stepped out of the shadow of her husband, the assassinated Benigno Aquino Jr. She is the icon of Philippine democracy and the talisman of People Power. Weeks after the funeral, yellow banners and tarpaulins bearing her picture and name still line the streets of Manila. I wasn't even born when she ascended to power, but I know I wake up to her legacy every single morning...
...played jazz in college and, as a young TIME staffer in 1964, traveled with the Beatles on their first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika Jones, whose father Robert was a folksinger in the '60s and whose mom once dined with George Harrison, and yours truly...
...clear that many major media organizations are doing their part to cast Michelle Obama in a certain mold, one into which she shouldn’t necessarily have to fit—the fashion maven and the cultural arbiter, the trendsetter and the globetrotter, the American queen and world icon...
...some version of the modern American woman, the woman who is fully engaged in each aspects of her life and who deserves a much broader definition than something as trivial as wardrobe alone, and a J.Crew wardrobe at that. Yet the media would have her transformed into another fashion icon or, as Vogue’s André Leon Talley said recently, “the most fashionable woman in America.” As if her fashion sense were the sole characteristic that defined...