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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...drop Luis Buńuel flicks. In the Spitzer case, reporters eventually tracked down his regular date, "Kristen," an aspiring singer with a MySpace page. The drab details we glimpsed--would-be American Idol ends up with a bit part in Fallen Idol--contrasted ironically with the club's play-pretend trappings of emperors and diamonds (the basis for its pricing scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...would have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like Top Chef have been telling us for a while now: that the customer-service business is hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...upon reaching her lowest point, Rowling said, she stripped away the “inessential” in her life and ceased to pretend to be anything other than what...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rowling Charges Grads To Accept Failure, Cultivate Imagination | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...Time to Stop? I have grown disappointed over the past few years as TIME seems to have developed an unending devotion to lists of people [TIME 100, May 12]. I imagine you all sitting around a table at a bar, throwing out names and drinking beer as you pretend these lists provide anything that resembles decent content. What happened to the masterful magazine of record and real depth? As a longtime subscriber, I wish you would go back to substantive reporting and drop the vacuous list-making. Susan Heron, Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...Time to Stop? I have grown disappointed over the past few years as TIME seems to have developed a persisting devotion to lists of people [TIME 100, May 12]. I imagine you all sitting around a table at a bar, throwing out names and drinking beer as you pretend these lists provide anything that resembles decent content. What happened to the masterful magazine of record and real depth? As a longtime subscriber, I wish you would go back to substantive reporting and drop the vacuous list-making. Susan Heron, Tampa, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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