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...there any comedians you'd like to work with in the future? -Ansley Hayes, Dallas Phyllis Diller. I want us to do a road comedy together. And she drives. It would be called Crazy Grandma at the Wheel, and I would be a next-door neighbor she kidnaps because she's gotta get money to put down on a house in Florida. At the very end, we hold hands and we drive off a cliff. And there's a lot of sex scenes for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amy Poehler | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...program would eventually cost taxpayers money. An agency, probably part of the Treasury, could give banks the money to help qualified car buyers keep their vehicles. A man sitting in his house looking out the window could see a car he is helping to pay for sitting in the next-door neighbor's driveway. A really clever car-loan bailout program would allow the taxpayer to use his neighbor's car as compensation for his higher taxes. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Real Estate Market by Paying the Neighbor's Mortgage | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...tanks. Civilians in the densely packed slice of land carpeted with teeming slums are finding themselves with no safe places of refuge as the Israelis tighten their grip. TIME correspondent Azmy Keshawi recounted the scene in his neighborhood: "We knew that an Israeli sniper was on top of the next-door apartment building. As one of our neighbors tried to leave the building, he was shot four times and just bled to death. There was nothing we could do, with the sniper there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza Fighting Intensifies Despite Truce Talks | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Like many men who project an easy intimacy over the airwaves, and are adopted by the public as a surrogate uncle or next-door neighbor, Cooke could be distant from his own domestic life. His 1934 marriage to Ruth Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grand-niece, ended in divorce, and he showed little interest in their son John. The Unseen Alistair Cooke shows a home movie the father shot of his six-year-old son's train set, but the footage is all about the toy trains; young John's role was excised before shooting. When his stepdaughters from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alistair Cooke: PBS's Rock Star | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...parents' home in the neighborhood where he grew up to knock on doors for Obama. Brian is soft-spoken - not exactly a natural personality for this kind of work; back when his elementary school would hold candy-sale drives, "I was one of those kids who would get their next-door neighbor and their mom to buy some, and that was it," he told me. "But this [presidential election] really matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Battleground Virginia, a Tale of Two Ground Games | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

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