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When it comes to comedy careers, Carol Leifer has been there, done that. Besides being a popular stand-up comedian, Leifer, 52, is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer for work on shows like Seinfeld, Larry Sanders and Saturday Night Live. But it's her personal résumé that is the main focus of her entertaining new book, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win (Villard). Leifer's notable relationship history has included two famous former boyfriends (comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser), one not-famous former husband, a female partner for the past 12 years...
...TIME: You describe yourself as a late bloomer for having come out after you were 40 years old. Leifer: I'm finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I've met people who say, "I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out." My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay. I mean, I was attracted to boys. My first crush was on Davy Jones. My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because...
TIME Photographer Neil Leifer spent 17 days in China and came back with many of the pictures that appear in the main cover story. Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, who, along with Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp, designed the cover package, commissioned the traditional Chinese characters that represent the one-word titles accompanying the pictures...
...Comstock Inc. Star Trek by Henry Gris -- FPG; credit cards by Robert Kristofik -- The Image Bank; Bernard Shaw courtesy CNN; travel by Paul Nehrenz -- The Image Bank; music by John Endress -- The Stock Market; Gone With the Wind from Photofest; The Crying Game courtesy Miramax Films; boxing by Neil Leifer; Arthur's Teacher Trouble courtesy Broderbund Software; VideoPhone courtesy AT&T; still-life photos by James Keyser...
...Leifer talks "for better or worse, about my personal experiences. I have a new joke about going out to dinner. You know, you order a bottle of wine, and they give you the cork? I feel like a jerk, sitting there sniffing and going, 'Yep, that's cork.' I said that to a waiter and he laughed. I thought, Gee, maybe I should try that...