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McKay's performance, which marries physical resemblance to internal channeling - he's practiced in this, having written and performed a one-man show called Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles - is exceptional. But there's one insurmountable problem: his age. He's 36, and passing for Welles at 22 is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Linklater (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) usually sticks to contemporary stories, or ones set in the recent past. (An exception, The Newton Boys, a 1920s-set western, was his least memorable film.) Nothing about Me and Orson Welles suggests a directorial affinity for period pieces. When a vintage ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

In one scene, Richard is exploring backstage, and we feel his pleasure in his insider status; he's puffed up from it. Then he lights a match to better examine graffiti left by someone who walked these boards in earlier days and inadvertently sets off the theater's sprinkler system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Michael Kenneth Williams' portrayal of Omar Little, the iconoclastic shotgun-toting stickup artist in the HBO drama The Wire, earned praise from critics, peers and gangsters alike. With David Simon's Baltimore saga wrapped up, Williams has moved to the silver screen, where he has a part in director John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actor Michael Kenneth Williams | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Given the sensitivity of these and other aspects of the conflict, some of the war's fiercest critics - including the family members of dead soldiers - have expressed concerns that the Iraq inquiry was set up to "whitewash" British and American failures during the war. As the panel has no statutory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Redux: Britain Launches a New Iraq Inquiry | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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