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There were career frustrations too. The acting work in L.A. was spotty and hardly satisfying. "You get a Seinfeld episode, and people still to this day think that's a big deal," he says. "'You were on the Festivus episode.' That was four days out of my life!" He knew it was time to leave when he was kicking himself for losing out on a regular role in V.I.P., the Pamela Anderson action series. He drove to Chicago to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross and decided to stay...
Plotting its own demise was Lost's best innovation yet. Some big-network hits, like Mary Tyler Moore and Seinfeld, have gone out on top but not with an end planned years in advance. Others limp to the finish; next season is the last for ER, which began airing back when physicians used leeches to drain the body of ill humors...
What really makes the TIME 100 special is the pairings: Jerry Seinfeld explaining how Chris Rock gets away with breaking every rule of political correctness, novelist Robin Cook on how scientist J. Craig Venter may be coming close to inventing a living thing. The maestro of those pairings is deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius, who presides over the TIME 100 issue and orchestrates not only the choices but also who will write about whom. He was ably helped by editors Belinda Luscombe, Bobby Ghosh, Bill Saporito, Jeffrey Kluger and Amy Sullivan. Deputy art director D.W. Pine came up with...
...viewers’.A little experiment: Try watching the first three episodes of any comedy you consider worthwhile. Chances are, they’re not unlike “Jezebel James”: pretty terrible, but with inklings of promise. Even great comedies like “Seinfeld,” “30 Rock,” and “The Office” weren’t too quick out of the gate. Networks don’t seem to get this: they’re more than happy to immediately cast off some shows...
...Gaborone, Botswana,- set of his latest film, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Anthony Minghella was trying to put success into perspective. He had won an Oscar for 1996's The English Patient, a film that became so ingrained in the collective cinematic consciousness it had an episode of Seinfeld dedicated to it. He had worked with a selection of the A-list: Jude Law, Renee Zellwegger, Matt Damon, Nicole Kidman. And he had built a reputation as the go-to guy for contemplative, complex, slowly unfolding films, the thinking man's movies. The kinds of movies, cliches be damned...