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...that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character he played in five films, lent the cop film an antiheroic attitude the genre still can't shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wild West's Long and Winding Road | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...years in the making for him. And Jakobsen says the process of negotiating with Denmark has made Greenland savvier about their place in the international community. "[People] know more than they knew before. ... They are more ready for a change," he says. "They are waiting for someone to pop up and say, 'Yes, this is the way we should go. Follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenland to World: "Keep Out!" | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

Kevin Wasiluk, who sat outside the bathroom while waiting to catch a flight, says he first heard about the bathroom on the evening news. Wasiluk says he fully embraces the novelty of the situation. "It's pop history," he says. "No one's going to remember this in five years, so I'm going to get a picture while I still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visiting Larry Craig's Stall | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...have soured life for most young Lebanese, Beirut has been home to a small but artistically significant rock scene whose handful of bands, with names like Soap Kills and the New Government, have tried to put this tiny country on the music map for something other than sexy Arab pop divas. They've been part of a creative subculture of artists, architects and designers who have tried to reconcile Eastern with Western cultural forms, as well as tradition with modernity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Beirut | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...showed in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Velvet Goldmine, Haynes is fascinated by the drudgery of pop fame - the gilded cages of hotel rooms, cars and private soirées in between gigs - and the drug use that is part of that routine. I'm Not There is more beguiled by this phase of Dylan's career than I am, and gets repetitious and draggy here, like some long folk ballad in its seventh or eighth verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dylan and the Beatles: Together Again! | 9/16/2007 | See Source »

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