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And though the show turns Waters' subversive (if rather slipshod) movie into a feel-good sitcom, that's mostly O.K. Waters based his story on a real Baltimore teen TV show of the late 1950s and '60s, and the naive outrage of Hairspray heroine Tracy Turnblad at the show's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desegregation Doo-Wop | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

The trick in a movie aiming at romantic refinement is to avoid being either pushy or inert. There Possession fails, certainly in the modern half of the story. Actors preen overmuch; Paltrow again imitates Englishness by sucking in her suave cheeks; Eckhart (a LaBute regular) works too hard at being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Love Among the Stacks | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

In 1934 she met Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He...promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 66 Years Ago in TIME | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

During her breaks from the series, Aniston has journeyed to the big screen, usually in romantic comedies, but like the five other Friends, she has had trouble convincing the world she can play something beyond her cute TV persona. "Yeah, keep your day job," says Aniston, laughing. "If we didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jennifer Makes Good | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

The only musician working today who could start an advice column if she tired of writing in rhyme may be AIMEE MANN. Her songs often take the perspective of an older sister talking a listener through a breakup. "This is how it goes: You'll get angry at yourself/And think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Sing, Therefore I Am | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

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