Some of the cinema’s greatest actors have portrayed the Commander-in-Chief. TIME looks at the most notable performances.
Office Watch: Baby, Love
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, strap in your watermelon securely and watch last night’s Office.
The Morning After: John the Interviewee
The conventional wisdom in the debates was first that John McCain would do best in the town hall format. Then it became that—whoever you thought won the final debate—he actually did best in the seated-at-a-table format. But now that the debates are over, I think it’s clear: he really excels at the format involving a couch.
McCain …
On the Road Again
Again! Back Monday.
Casting Call
So who plays Joe the Plumber on Saturday Night Live?
Also: How happy are these guys right now?
Look Who's Running Against the Media
Last night at the debate, Barack Obama parried a charge from John McCain that he would raise taxes on people making $42,000 a year by saying, “Even Fox News disputes it, and that doesn’t happen very often when it comes to accusations about me.”
Obama seemed to be trying to end on a wry note there, but he makes a more straightfaced …
Why The Shield Is So Awful, and Great
Because FX is generous enough to send episodes of The Shield far in advance, I have now watched through two episodes short of the finale. Through seven seasons, I’ve struggled to put my finger on just what it is that makes the show so disturbing to me. I mean, there are the obvious factors. The brutality, the gore, …
The Morning After: The Other Big Vote
Spoilers for Project Runway… do not follow the jump, because I was liveblogging the debate while it was on. It’s sitting on my Tivo, but rather than make you wait, I’ll throw the thread open to your finale comments, and maybe I’ll add my own once I get to around to watching.
Update: Watched it. Quick spoiler-y comment added after the jump.
Pre-Columbian, Post-Suburban
On my out to San Francisco last month I swung though Los Angeles for a couple of days. One thing I was there to see were the new galleries for pre-Columbian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They were designed by the artist Jorge Pardo as …
Debating the Final Debate
As I write this post, CNN and CBS have just come out with their insta-polls, which gave the debate to Obama by what I believe was the biggest margin of any of the debates. I was surprised, and then I wasn’t.
CBS’s poll gave the debate to Obama by a two-to-one margin. I’m an Obama supporter, and even I didn’t think he was twice as good …
The Debate or Project Runway?
Which is going to be for you? Which is more suspenseful? Will Kenley go negative?
In either case, forget about tonight swinging the gay vote.
The Emperor Hadrian
The first thing to be said about the British Museum’s current exhibition about the Roman Emperor Hadrian is that it makes you understand why Neil MacGregor, the British Museum’s director, wants more space. MacGregor wants to build an addition that will …
CNN Seeks to Be Funny On Purpose
Can any CNN personality be funnier than Wolf Blitzer, Lou Dobbs and Jack Cafferty? The network is about to find out, as it gives a Saturday 10 p.m. live show to comedian D. L. Hughley. Hughley, a Bill Maher regular and former costar of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, will interview guests and riff on the news of the week.
On the plus …