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...Senate race, Florida's usually moderate Republican governor, Charlie Crist, has been accused of pandering to conservatives. He even opposed Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, a questionable move in a state with one of the nation's largest Latino populations. But since Florida GOP Senator Mel Martinez last week resigned the seat Crist is running for, the governor now has the rather weird duty of appointing an interim successor to the job he eventually wants. (He insists he won't appoint himself.) His choice could have a big effect on both his 2010 fortunes and whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Senate Seat: The (Premature) Martinez Opening | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...said that inside every comedian is the urge to play Hamlet. (Hey, Mel Gibson did it.) Well, inside Judd Apatow, he wishes, is a secret Jim Brooks. James L. Brooks is the sitcom titan (Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, The Simpsons) who forged an Oscar-winning film career as the writer-director of comedy-dramas about attractive neurotics. The needy souls from Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, I'll Do Anything and As Good As It Gets were all variously self-aware and self-absorbed, and they struck viewers not as comic constructs but as real, flawed people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny People: Uneasy Mix of Humor and Heart | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...soldiers who surround Congress's headquarters in the Honduran capital. The protesters with sun-scorched faces and hardened hands cry out about the misery of the Honduran poor. And they chant the name of the one man they say has helped them: President Manuel Zelaya, whom they fondly call "Mel." One hundred yards away, marchers in neat white T shirts and designer sunglasses calmly sing the country's national anthem. They accuse Zelaya of being a polarizing class warrior. And they applaud the troops who stormed his house the morning of June 28 and flew him out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hondurans Take Sides and Hit the Streets | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...MEL GIBSON co-writes "naked, intimate, raw" song on girlfriend's debut album. It's about torturing Jim Caviezel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...Gibson, Mel • song is co-written by with pregnant girl friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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