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...there ever any performative aspect to anything you did? I'm sure you imagined you'd go into animation, but you've taken a real front-of-the-camera role. I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did. With the Family Guy pilot, part of me doing the voices was that there wasn't any money to hire actors. But there was also a very specific vocal and delivery style that I was after. It was just easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...screen recently, you could be forgiven for failing to distinguish one silk-clad heroine from another. And “The Duchess”—based on the biography of the same name by Amanda Foreman—does little to make the dazzling Georgiana of Devonshire stand out from the crowd. Like “Marie Antoinette” and “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “The Duchess” is a period film about a beautiful, young, aristocratic female trapped in an unhappy situation. This time, it?...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Duchess | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Good debate prep is designed to build up, not tear down, the candidate's confidence. The first trick is to practice with a stand-in who has memorized the opposing candidate's likely answers. This is far easier than it sounds. One of the best-kept secrets of politics is that there are only about 20 "typical" questions. Odds are that one's esteemed opponent has publicly answered every imaginable policy question by the time the debate finally occurs. It is vital that your candidate not hear your opponent's answers for the first time onstage, since that will often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There They Go Again | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Where Do They Stand? A year ago, most people thought this would be an election dominated by foreign policy. More recently, it looked like an election about gas prices. The candidates are still adjusting to a campaign about collateralized debt obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Lead Us Out of This Mess? | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Will Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina be allowed to stand for the elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Bangladesh's Leader Fakhruddin Ahmed | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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