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...movie Living in Oblivion, in which Steve Buscemi plays a director who casts a dwarf in a dream sequence, only to have the little person mock him. "The only place I've seen dwarfs in dreams is in stupid movies like this!" the tiny actor says. "Oh, make it weird, put a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HBO's Cirque du So-So | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...guest on The Lucy Show and declared that Ball "could 'outbitch' her any day of the week." But as for the comic art, he's short on insight, he offers little cultural context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor and color." (Let's see how Kanfer massages that theory should he ever write Jerry Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Fast and Lucy | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...more and think of topics other kids might be interested in. "It didn't work the first time, but the second time it went well, and now it works great," Alexander says. "Now I have a group of kids I have lunch with every day. We make up weird songs, talk about music or what we're doing for the summer. For some reason, it seems, they even look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Loners | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...developing breasts, you're wondering why you're not developing breasts. If you are developing breasts, you're wondering why what all the boys pay attention to anymore is your breasts. It's kind of a no-win situation. When you're in middle school, you're in a weird spot. You're either wishing for the changes, or you're befuddled by them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tween Town, U.S.A. | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...week you?re kenyan, a week later you?re Qatari, and very clearly for financial reasons - this is morally weird - ISTVAN GYULAI, I.A.A.F. general secretary

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Run For the Money | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

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