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...Denzel Washington that eluded the more rough-hewn Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, does not come to a tragic end. Eventually, he is turned by an almost comically obsessive cop named Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), does some jail time and loses his fortune, but remains available to tell his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Gangster: Seductive Crime | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Eisner brought an absolutely revolutionary dimension to the graphic novel, which was to make it an instrument of memory," says Pasamonik. Finally, with a nod toward Edmond-Fran?ois Calvo's 1944 La B?te est Morte (The Beast is Dead) - which uses animals to tell the story of World War II - Art Spiegelman brought the graphic novel worldwide recognition by winning a Pulitzer prize in 1992 for his Holocaust saga, Maus. Eisner and Spiegelman's heirs now litter the globe, from Frenchman Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat) to Iranian Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis). "From Superman to the Rabbi's Cat" pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Superman's Inner Jew | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Hawke method is to touch. Shake hands, pat backs, kiss heads. One disheveled man tells him that although he's always voted Liberal, he won't vote for Turnbull: "All he wants is to be Prime Minister with all his money." For that line he gets an arm around him, as does the 92-year-old woman who whispers, "Can we get rid of that bastard?" Amid the laughter, no one checks whether she means Turnbull or the P.M. "You're good at this, Bob," someone shouts. "Thought of running again yourself?" Hawke's heard this before. "Been there, done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feel for His Audience | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique in people's living rooms," Gao says. "If you tell them that it's fake or that it has a crack in it, they cannot accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saint and Sinner | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...seats, a hipster-looking student worked his way through the half-hour-long line to shake Paul's hand. This was surely it - the moment when the straight faces would break and Paul would be wedgied up the flagpole. "When you see Bernanke," the kid said, "will you tell him to stop cutting rates when gold hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ron Paul Revolution | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

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