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Vicky is immediately attracted to a local painter, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem, this year's Oscar winner for No Country for Old Men). He is one of those artists, found mostly in fiction (and in the fantasies of artists), whose true vocation is mixing up the hearts of the many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes: Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and Woody | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

The fact that many mothers are incapable of simply telling their children about their procedures is also indicative of a poisonous societal context. Today, plastic surgery is an established television genre: “Dr. 90210,” “Nip/Tuck,” and ?...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Tummy Tucks for Toddlers | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

Scorsese is revered by many as the foremost American picturemaker of his generation. From 1973's Mean Streets through Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas up to his 2006 The Departed (for which he finally won a Best Director Oscar), he has blended elegance with agitation, depicted the anomie of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorsese's Moonlighting Gig | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Are your novels about Jesus Christ the end of your evolution as a writer or merely the beginning? -Kyle McCartney, Huntington Beach, Calif.It's the beginning of a new epoch. It was a big shift and the great thing about it was that it allowed me to draw on all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anne Rice | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

What carried Martin through the years of obscurity that followed was his unshakable sense of vocation. From childhood, he knew he wanted to do comedy and that he could be good at it if he applied himself with a monk's dedication. "I loved to work really hard," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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