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...producer and celebrity more than a wit, Frost quickly antagonized some of the major funnymen of his generation. Peter Cook, of the Beyond the Fringe comedy quartet, called him "the bubonic plagiarist" for performing a similar impression of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan similar to Cook's at Cambridge. Many of the Monty Python troupe had worked for Frost on earlier shows, and in the sketch "Timmy Williams Coffee Time" Eric Idle played Frost as a gladhander preening for TV crews while ignoring the plaints of a recently widowed friend. Pythonite John Cleese, on the radio show I'm Sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Bourne's shows speak to audiences all over the world, it's because he himself has such an acute comprehension of his medium. As a student in the early 1980s he was a near-obsessive balletomane, dissecting works by classical choreographers like Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan to work out how they established what he calls "that emotional mainline." But he also has an encyclopedic knowledge of film, and of how to apply its visual language in his own work. Speech, he believes, can often get in the way: "You feel things more deeply if there are no words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance with the Devil | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...spent her spare time wisely, watching Anthony Dowell rehearse. She was picked for the company at 17, but chafed at being in the corps. ''I never felt part of the whole, I hated to be in line.'' Spoken like a ballerina. Ferri's big break came when Sir Kenneth MacMillan cast her in Mayerling, and she was soon performing a wide repertory. When Baryshnikov came calling, Ferri was ready, leaving the Royals with a mere ''You only live once.'' In her first year at A.B.T., she has worked with typical speed and intelligence, learning six major roles, three of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THREE WHO CAPTURE THE MAGIC New ballerinas from Italy, Russia and France are revelations | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...this is a nice idea, unless kids want to play it of their own volition, it is the equivalent of forcing them to read a book,” Haley says. But Kaplan isn’t the first company to use video games for educational purposes. In 1998, Macmillan Digital Publishing released “Math Invaders,” an action game resembling the classic “Doom.” While it was more popular than previous educational video games, its mild success owed largely to the fact that math took a backseat to entertainment. Kaplan...

Author: By Jack G. Clayton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New Game Plan for SAT Prep | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

Jerry Haar, a business dean at Florida International University, and John Price, head of Latin American business intelligence at Kroll InfoAmericas, offer reform advice for the hemisphere in Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan; 336 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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