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None of which should deter potential readers; surely it's no longer a shock to discover that celebrities sometimes seek a little polish for their memoirs. And in this case, well, let's cut a chimp some slack here: Cheeta's screen career, which stretched right up to 1967 (Dr. Dolittle), called for a mastery of physical performance - mime, slapstick, acro- and aerobatics - not of stage English. Even his leading man, Tarzan, rarely ventured much beyond "Aaaheeyaaheeyaheeyaheeyah" or "Jane not worry." Now though, at the age of 76, and living out the last of his days in a Palm Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autobiography of Tarzan's Cheeta | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...respond to critics who think you should seek permission and pay artists for the samples you use? I feel a certain way about the laws, but I don't necessarily want to wear that on my sleeve. I don't want to go play a show and then preach to the audience about sampling rights. If my music generates thoughts on those issues, that's fantastic, but it's not goal number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl Talk | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...able to pay for their houses, no matter how generous the terms, because someone - the homeowner, the mortgage broker - lied about or simply ignored income and assets. Cena Valladolid, chief operating officer for Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Southern Nevada, says more than half of the homeowners who seek help from her nonprofit are living in houses they never had a realistic shot of affording. The best advice she can offer in the depressed Las Vegas real estate market is to ask the lender to allow a short sale, so that the house might be sold for less than what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Housing Market, Stupid | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...addition to the conference, the club also conducts a nonprofit speaker series throughout the year and sponsors MBA students who seek summer internships at nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia area...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Profs To Discuss Nonprofits | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...police files years after a Stalinist regime has vanished,” the editorial board asserted on Saturday. In exactly this manner, journalists should pause before using their power to shock and spread controversy. Their prime responsibility is to exercise caution when making claims and, when blunders occur, to seek a “public recognition and rectification of [their] mistakes,” just as Solzhenitsyn demanded at Harvard 30 years ago. We can only hope that the Russian writer’s prudence will bear out if the insinuations made about his Czech counterpart’s past...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: The Fall of Kaavya and Kundera | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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