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...Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last month. "But it's a gas. You go out and kick it, and every night you pick up new stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Real Robin Still Stand Up? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...half-century, Williams is looking for a lot of new stuff. "When you get to be older, you start to think, What will be your body of work? What will you leave behind?" he says. And his oeuvre is, frankly, spotty. No one can take away Mork & Mindy; Good Morning, Vietnam; or his Oscar for Good Will Hunting. But Williams is a recovering schmaltzaholic, having engaged in a dangerous number of Patch Adams- and Mrs. Doubtfire-type roles. As therapy, apart from performing before 39 live audiences in 26 cities over the next two months, he's beating a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Real Robin Still Stand Up? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Over midnight sushi in Chicago, he is still popping with energy, happy the first show of the tour went so well. The mix of humor seemed about right; the crowd laughed along with the political jokes as well as the Viagra routines. "The political stuff is the reason to come back out," he says. "I think there is a kind of responsibility [for a comedian] to talk about what everyone is going through. A lot of comedy comes from fear. It's having a take on things that people are maybe thinking but not expressing. That's when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Real Robin Still Stand Up? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Gold or a knockoff, and that could hurt him. Nonetheless, there's no arguing with his influence: he is everywhere. Walk into any hipster apartment from New York City to Nashville, Tenn., and you will see his work, or at least his influence. "I do think about not letting stuff get too pedestrian," Gold says. "I was in London a few months ago, and I saw all this furniture being unloaded into a flat, and I said, 'That's my Kathleen sofa! That's my Pottery Barn chair! This is really too much!'" Never one to miss an opportunity, Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold's New Rush | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...counter in a fashionable department store, focuses her digital camera and, with a silent click, captures the frilly purple top and the pearl-encrusted costume jewelry on display. Like any fashion designer, Ryou is looking for inspiration for her next collection. But you'll never see mannequins strutting her stuff down a runway. Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-commerce | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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