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...made on the streets near her home. Her laundryman father tried to beat (literally beat) a dutiful girl's sense into her, and told her she was disgracing the family, as we learn from Graham Russell Gao Hodges' thorough biography Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. But Anna May couldn't get the dream out of her head. Because she was tall and graceful, and because her big eyes gave her a maturity beyond her years, she found work as an extra by the time she was 14, and played important roles opposite Lon Chaney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...pennies from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says increased ticket sales and sponsorship are unlikely to cover the extra cost of the players. Can this reunion last past the NHL lockout? Russian hockey legend Alexei Kasatonov, who now trains teams in New York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling is introduced, then you'll see that the majority of the NHL's Russian players will stay at home," he says. But most are skeptical. Says Anaheim Mighty Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Puck, Will Travel | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...Rada [parliament] that voted to fire Yanukovych earlier this month," Stetskiv told Time. He urged Yushchenko to tell the Maidan about Yanukovych's plan, and to call outgoing President Leonid Kuchma to demand that he stop the Cabinet meeting. Yushchenko looked out the window to the wooded hill where, legend has it, the Apostle Andrew erected the first Christian cross in what is now Ukraine, and made up his mind: he would call for the tent city to be dismantled, but also appeal to his supporters to blockade the Cabinet office one more time the next morning, to stop Yanukovych...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is This Viktor? | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...Testament Book of Isaiah that "the ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's crib, but Israel has not known me." By contrast, the camels that pop up in many Nativities are relatively innocent. A passage from the medieval compendium of saints' lives called The Golden Legend tells how they solved a logistical problem for a perplexed church father: "Now it may be demanded how, in so little space of 13 days, [the Magi] might come from so far as from the East unto Jerusalem, which is a great space and a long way. S. Jerome saith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Thompson remembers how he made a special audition tape for Cosby. “The legend is that [Cosby] watched, like, twenty seconds of it and just gave me the job,” says the Fat Albert star...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kenan Chews the 'Fat' | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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