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...thrilling journalistic chase led by the spectral figure known as Deep Throat. But if the secret of his identity, held fast by four men for 33 years, is no more, there is still mystery in the nature and meaning of his role in Watergate. Was Deep Throat a villain or a hero, driven by base motives or noble ones? And was he in fact the central player he has become in our minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Watergate's Last Chapter | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...What a coincidence: almost exactly 60 years after the end of World War II in Europe, the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, is on TIME's cover. I imagine he is there not only to attract readers but also to symbolize that the once mighty "evil empire" eventually collapsed. May the Force stay with you. Arek Druzdzel Radom, Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

...think he would know how to project--and protect--himself in public. His greatest strength as an actor was that he played Tom Cruise brilliantly. As a Mission Impossible hero and a Collateral villain, he got audiences to feel the pleasure he took in being watched. And as an interview subject, he took care to be amiable but reveal little. Now he's playing the impulsive adolescent and the dispenser of stern advice. He slammed doctors for giving kids Ritalin and criticized Brooke Shields, the star of Cruise's first film (Endless Love, 1981), for her brief dependence on prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Is Tom Crazy in Love? | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...Gorshin was a regular on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage.) But he gained his greatest fame playing the Riddler, the cackling, green-clad villain on the campy 1960s TV series Batman. Most recently, he won critical acclaim for his dead-on impersonation of actor-comedian George Burns in the one-man Broadway show Say Goodnight, Gracie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...wants to engrave his name in the annals of cinema, he needs to produce something quite different from the children's entertainment he has been making. Abbas Ali Massah Tehran What a coincidence: almost exactly 60 years after the end of World War II in Europe, the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, is on Time's cover. I imagine he is there not only to attract readers but also to symbolize that the once mighty "evil empire" eventually collapsed. May the Force stay with you. Arek Druzdzel Radom, Poland A Matter of Crime In your report on race relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Mention the War | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

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