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...spent nearly a decade out of the spotlight, Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani still knows how to make an entrance. Arriving for an interview with TIME inside a domed marble Tehran palace, Rafsanjani, 70, strides in with the bounce of a man half his age. He's even accompanied by his film crew. It's all part of a slick campaign aimed at selling one of the Islamic republic's old founding fathers as a hip reformer in tune with restless young Iranians, in hopes of returning the former President to the job he left in 1997. As he settles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comeback Cleric | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

While Dmitri seems to have broken into the spotlight, there was once a time when he lived in his father’s shadow...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nabokov Carries on Father's Legacy | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...reasons that many of us at The Crimson became journalists, because we wanted to stand up for often defenseless faculty-types who weren’t very politically sophisticated and who were under a huge public spotlight, rightly and wrongly,” says Rosenthal...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Red In The Face | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...sitcom I'm It. O.K., you won't recall her: she's a character, played by ex-Friend Lisa Kudrow, on the HBO sitcom The Comeback (Sundays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.). But you've seen her kind a lot lately: a celebrity desperate to get back in the spotlight. She keeps her old TV Guide cover and a portrait of her Leno appearance framed in her house like a shrine to a former, dead self. She gets a chance to land a network sitcom--playing the prudish aunt on a lame-brained sex comedy--if she'll also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Coming Back Is Hard To Do | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...maybe he's experimenting with a new form of postmodernist performance art, or put-on, to get back in the spotlight. "People haven't been talking about Tom Cruise like they have in the past couple of weeks," says veteran publicist Liz Rosenberg. "I mean, [his public affection for Holmes] is a little freaky to watch, but that's what enthralls people about it." As an admiring publicist put it, "As usual, Tom has the media exactly where he wants them." That's for sure. All he did was spend an hour with Oprah--and, look, we wrote a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Is Tom Crazy in Love? | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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