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...with his band, Chuck Barris and the Hollywood Cowboys, a reunited Gong Show orchestra. "I thought with the movie coming out maybe I could sell a CD," he explains, before ruing that the Web wasn't around in 1980, when he could have sold GONG SHOW REJECT T shirts. When I tell him it's not too late, he nods. Half an hour later he says, "The website is a good idea. Maybe I'll give that a shot." Along with Hollywood mementos, the apartment is strewn with piles of books, which he reads three at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying to Tell the Truth: CHUCK BARRIS | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Here, the themes of the film emerge, as these individuals express what Moss calls “a kind of continuousness of values between then and now.” The film tries to reject the conventional portrayal of the hippie-gone-capitalist, instead suggesting that the river that embodied their youthful freedom still directs their lives in different ways...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VES Lecturer’s Film Screens at Sundance | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...them Russian). Hay must now help the Corps volunteers scattered throughout Russia plan speedy departures. The U.S. ambassador, Alexander Vershbow, is furious at the insinuations. Patrushev's comments, he says, "are outrageous, untrue and harmful to the work that Peace Corps volunteers are carrying on world-wide. We categorically reject allegations that Peace Corps volunteers have been engaged in spying." But in the midst of this verbal blizzard, Hay himself remains, well, the quiet American. He declines to denounce his now-inhospitable host country. "The way the Peace Corps works is that a host government invites us for the term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Diplomat to the Corps | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

...becoming a relic in his own state. As NAFTA takes effect, and the Wal-Marts and Starbucks start moving in, the Trent Lotts are being shoved to the back of the bus, sitting with plastic casino buckets and handing out Confederate trinkets to the remaining white-power holdouts who reject progress in the name of heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi Has Left Lott Behind | 12/14/2002 | See Source »

...must commit ourselves to reject war. Our country must immediately enter negotiations to resolve this crisis,” Gumbleton said...

Author: By Erol N. Gulay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bishop Criticizes Potential War | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

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