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...back and forth between the magazines, with managing editors, photographers, reporters and mailroom clerks shuttling between elevator banks and mastheads with regularity and ease.) If the TIME sensibility informs the structure of the issue, we hope you will agree that the Life perspective--a picture really is worth a thousand words--flavors each page...
Lurking in every art form was technology that might change everything. Napster and similar inventions terrified the music industry with death by a thousand clicks. Video software allowed anyone to be an auteur. A novel titled Riding the Bullet, by a plucky little outsider named Stephen King, showed that the e-book could democratize publishing. Or at least win a bigger cut for filthy-rich authors. New millennium art may not know where it's going yet, but wherever that may be, it'll charge for the trip. --James Poniewozik...
More than merely "the man of a thousand faces," a designation first bestowed when he played eight characters, including a woman, in the 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, Sir Alec was the living embodiment of his many roles. A literate memoirist and self-effacing gentleman, he represented the quintessence of the British acting tradition...
Thirteen of a thousand faces: center, as Capt. Henry St. James (The Captain's Paradise, 1953). Clockwise from top left: Herbert Pocket (Great Expectations, 1946); Agatha d'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...
...second act he hopes for is a second chance. But even though he won the popular vote and, for all we'll ever know, the electoral one, his own party is complaining that had he won bigger, he wouldn't have needed to be worried over a few thousand uncounted ballots. Democrats don't like their losers, even good ones...