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...story of a handful of American and European expatriates who established a neutral safety zone to protect some 200,000 Nanjing residents during the conflict. The film is the brainchild of Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner), who had chanced upon Chang's obituary in a yellowing newspaper while on holiday in the Caribbean. "It shocked me, one, that I didn't know anything about this incident and, two, that there were these remarkable people whose stories had really never been told," he recalls...
...Gaffes to the Rescue" [Feb. 19]: I wonder whether Michael Kinsley's imagined description of ABC executives' using "a crack of the whip" on the gaffe-prone African-American actor Isaiah Washington was simply an unfortunate use of a cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic, to say the least...
...shows can successfully skewer anti-Semitism, Lifetime, Optimus Prime, and William Shatner—let alone in a single episode. This glorious achievement belongs to “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” the once-banned episode of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy,” whose no-holds-barred, nothing-is-sacred schtick has made the show the biggest primetime cartoon since “The Simpsons”—and made MacFarlane a star. But for a man who has built his career on flouting the standards...
...because they force us to do things we don’t want to do. For example, Presidents’ Day (the day formally known as Washington’s Birthday) is a holiday when all Americans are suppose to do their civic duty by buying linens and dwelling upon the achievements of Millard Fillmore. Columbus Day is a day to remember 1492—to paraphrase Vonnegut—the year sea pirates discovered a new continent. Thanksgiving is the time to eat cranberry-covered turkey and be nice to your family—all your family. But Trout...
...barely conceivable that a war, which posterity will very likely regard as the most unintelligible in our history, might justifiably produce a certain mild disquietude on the part of those who may be called upon to fight it?” the historian wrote in a letter at the height of the Vietnam...