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...exactly idle. He makes movies with his friends, does graphic novels, designs his own clothes and plays drums. "The last time I saw him," Baumbach says, "he was playing Bob Dylan on the ukulele." If folks come up and ask Owen Kline about poor Frank, he could sing, "No, no, no, it ain't me, babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Owen Kline | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...look on TV, and there are eight-year-old girls-mostly girls-marching into those dogs and fire hoses and then not turning around. I'm saying, well, what's making them do it, now? They don't have advantages and they're doing it, and they're singing songs that are very much like the songs I sing in Sunday School. How can this be and where is it coming from? And so my whole career has basically been kind of answering that moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Talks with MLK Biographer Taylor Branch | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT DOLLS Ever wonder what we'd do without females in fishnets who sing pop hits like Don't Cha? No, neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Who Had Their 15 Minutes of Fame | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

...room filled with economists, mathematicians and policy experts and levitating it. When he finishes, the room hovers in silence for a moment. Then there is laughter, as if everyone had just got off an amusement-park ride. "Facts," he says, "are very beautiful." But only Bono can make them sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constant Charmer | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...rest of us pay attention to them. Granted, there is the rare celeb, like Bono, who becomes a bona fide expert, but why should I turn to him for advice on solving poverty any more than I'd buy a ticket to watch global-poverty guru Jeffrey Sachs sing I Will Follow? Maybe stars can draw on a reservoir of trust, but that trust can be volatile. In 1985 Michael Jackson was a beloved humanitarian. Today, hearing him sing "We are the world/We are the children" is not so touching. Not in a good way anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Charitainment | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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