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+Review Movies | 73 days ago

The Descendants: George Clooney's Tragedy in Paradise

By Richard Corliss

Alexander Payne’s tale of a grieving Honolulu husband has been touted as Oscar bait but it’s closer to Hawaii Five-No

+Movies | 73 days ago

Exclusive Video: Steve Jobs Talks the ‘Magic’ of Innovation in Lost Interview

By Steven James Snyder

16 years after Steve Jobs first sat down with tech writer Bob Cringely, “The Lost Interview” brings the conversation to movie theaters this week. TIME has obtained an exclusive excerpt from that conversation

+Video Music | 73 days ago

Britney Spears Does Marilyn Manson

By Claire Suddath

Britney Spears has a new music video…sort of. It’s actually a video filmed for her 2009 Circus tour and it’s set to Marilyn Manson’s 16-year-old cover version of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” So really, nothing about this video is new at all, except the fact that it’s been leaked and you [...]

+News Media | 73 days ago

The Morning After: The Good, the Sad and the Odd, in a Night of Big Interviews

By James Poniewozik

I had to save Gabby Giffords for last. Giffords gave her first TV interview on ABC Monday night, the same night that NBC’s Bob Costas talked former Penn State defensive co-ordinator Jerry Sandusky, for Rock Center with Brian Williams, on the charges of child rape against Sandusky. The interviews aired in the same time slot—one [...]

+TV Recap House: Season 8, Episode 6 | 73 days ago

House Watch: The Clowning Around Edition

By John Cloud

Last night’s “House” was the first in a while to deal with the origin story of our addicted, acerbic anti-hero.

+Review Movies | 73 days ago

7 Lessons From the Lost Steve Jobs Interview, Showing at a Theater This Week

By Steven James Snyder

Still from 'Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview'

TIME gets an early viewing of a rediscovered 68-minute sit down with a young Steve Jobs

+News Media | 73 days ago

NYC Un-Occupies Wall Street, Manages the Media

By James Poniewozik

The NYPD raid to clean up Zuccotti Park at one in the morning clearly also came with an effort to contain the media and reduce the risk of adverse coverage.

+TV Recap Dancing with the Stars: Season 13, Episode 17 | 73 days ago

Dancing with the Stars Recap, Week 9: Latin Flavor and Injured Dancers

By Melissa Locker

This week, not only did the remaining celebrities grapple for a slot in the finals, but producers struggled to fill two hours with just four dancers.

+Video Books | 73 days ago

Marcel the Shell Gets His Book On

By Rachel Syme

Jenny Slate, creator of the viral video hit, talks about her new children’s book and debuts a new Marcel the Shell video.

+Review Music | 73 days ago

Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait

By Chris Coplan

After last year’s disappointing Thank Me Later, the rapper’s latest reminds us of why we liked him in the first place

+Television | 73 days ago

Intermediate Suspended Animation: NBC’s Midseason Slate Puts Community on Hold

By James Poniewozik

NBC says the inventive comedy will be coming back before long. And TV, after all, is a business. But this is still the opposite of Batman.

+Video Games | 73 days ago

Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective

By Jessica Winter

Less than two months after their breakup, R.E.M. is releasing a greatest-hits collection. We annotated the 40-song tracklist.

+News Media | 74 days ago

NBC News Hires Chelsea Clinton: Is There a Case for Nepotism?

By James Poniewozik

You can have the opportunities your parents did, and even some they may never have dreamed of, Young Americans! As long as your parents are really famous.

+Books | 74 days ago

“'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false-righteousness.”

Graphic artist Frank Miller, creator of 300 and and Sin City, weighing in on “Occupy Wall Street” in a vicious post on his official website.

+Review Music | 74 days ago

Music Monday: Childish Gambino's Camp

By Claire Suddath

Though Donald Glover is most famous for his role as Troy on NBC’s Community, his hip-hop album under the moniker Childish Gambino is not a vanity project.

+Video Movies | 74 days ago

Today's Movie Trailer: The Hunger Games

By Gilbert Cruz

Now that the Harry Potter series has been put to bed and the Twilight story is its in final stages, Hollywood needs a new franchise that can appeal to both children and adults. Place your bets, then, on The Hunger Games, the first movie of which will be released next March. Here is the film’s [...]

+Television | 74 days ago

The Morning After: Homeland on the Road

By James Poniewozik

In a drama about terrorism, you would expect an explosion, but not of the sort that finished last night’s Homeland. In this stunner of an episode, Homeland blew up its status quo.