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...trouble--at least until the wrong girl comes along. If this sounds like an upcoming episode of Entourage, then adjust your cultural references back about 500 years and add some tights. The young celeb: Henry VIII. The first wife: Catherine of Aragon. The friends: Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More. The temptress: Anne Boleyn. Sound familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Royals Become Rock Stars | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...hand, Sir Richard Branson has pledged millions of dollars in the fight against global warming. On the other hand, his Virgin Galactic will send passengers on a joyride, first via jet, then via spacecraft, burning up an insane amount of carbon-based fuel and adding substantially to global warming. Is one of Branson's activities supposed to cancel the other, or am I the only one who is terribly confused in this regard? Daniel Long San Francisco

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Sir: Concerning the National Enquirer story: sorry--the leopard has only changed half its spots if their story on Howard Hughes (which included me) is any example. I was never interviewed by these gentlemen, and much of their little story is a complete lie. There were never any nude scenes shot during or after a day's shooting. I have never posed in the nude above or below the waist. Like Lucifer, publications of this ilk tell a little truth and slip the lies in like chopped liver in a sandwich. The gullible don't know they've been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Mar. 26, 2007 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Schveep for you, sir, please?" A street arab of nine or ten was tugging at his coat with one hand and with the other held a broom as tall as she. A patina of filth made her chestnut hair black, and she had no right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: A New World Ablaze | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...their own right. Everyone is sitting in a circle on low beach chairs, wiggling toes in the white sand while debating the wisdom of getting into a centrifuge to test vomit potential at the high G-forces needed to soar into space. That's when the merry prankster himself, Sir Richard--master of Virgin Air, Virgin Records, Virgin stem cells, Virgin everything if he had his way--shows up and starts talking about sex in space. A vision of weightless gymnastics at zero G and intricate human docking maneuvers dances briefly in everyone's head. "Of course, if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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