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...tries to pick up an older man in full view of his most-wanted poster. As the national media grows obsessed with the manhunt, Reyes begins phoning a tabloid reporter following his story, desperately trying to take control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes as "Sordid, juicy, sad and oh so entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrew Cunanan: The Musical! | 10/6/2007 | See Source »

...Kingston revisits the chorus from Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er” and delivers another hit. As the smiling chorus opens up, Kingston appears, neatly dressed, true to his clean-cut image. The cheerful, cute lyrics surprisingly tell the somber story of a long lost love. The clubbers and sidemen swing along as Kingston sings: “Why’d you have to go-oh?” Scenes flash between a club stage and the streets where Kingston entertains not just one, but fifteen girls dressed...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Sean Kingston | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...again to the texts of three prominent writers in women’s history—Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Virginia Woolf—to drive home her view that history is a dialogue between present and past.“As I like to tell my students, history is not the moldy old facts. We create history out of the sources that survive from the past,” she said. “These three women tried to rewrite history and their inspiration came, as they tell us, by sitting in a library and becoming...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ulrich Embraces Historical Dialogue | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...Leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, U.S.A. Track and Field will pump up the next generation of stars, and tell us how they'll put all this sorry history behind us. Well, I heard that storyline back in 2004; how, with good conscience, can I buy it again? The world's two top sprinters, Tyson Gay of the United States and Asafa Powell, the 100-meter world record holder from Jamaica, have a nice little rivalry, and you'll hear about it ad nauseam in the months before the '08 games. But it's hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...maybe she'll set up another charm offensive, to tell us how she lied because she was scared, how in a way she's a victim of track and field's sordid culture of steroids and suspicion. Like all her performances, I'm sure it will be a doozy, but I, for one, will be skipping that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

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