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+Movies | December 8, 2011

We Need to Talk about Tilda Swinton

By Catherine Mayer

If extraterrestrials sent Tilda Swinton to Scotland as an undercover emissary they didn’t get her disguise quite right. Swinton has a spectral, almost alien beauty. I visited her in her home town Nairn and stumbled in her wake on a hike through the gorgeous wilderness of heather-strewn ridges and mysterious valleys nearby, to discuss her storied career and the latest role predicted to garner an Oscar nod.

+Television | November 17, 2011

Chelsea Handler: The Anti Oprah

By Claire Suddath
Jeff Minton For TIME

In this week’s issue of TIME, Karl Taro Greenfeld profiles Chelsea Handler, who, he says, is “the final iteration of decades of salty female comics, from Phyllis Diller to Joan Rivers to Kathy Griffin to Sarah Silverman.”

+Books | October 28, 2011

Steve Jobs and Joan Didion: The Untold Story

By Lev Grossman

In this week’s TIME, I review the new Steve Jobs biography and the new Joan Didion memoir.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 26, 2011

The Path to the White House Runs Through AMC Mob Week

By James Poniewozik

AMC announced that it’s scheduling its first-ever Mob Week next month, to be hosted by none other than former federal prosecutor, former NYC mayor, former TIME Person of the Year, former Presidential frontrunner, former Presidential primary washout and current, well, AMC movie-week host, Rudolph Giuliani. As with Sarah Palin’s TLC series or Donald Trump’s work [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 26, 2011

TIME 100, the TV Edition

By James Poniewozik

TIME throws its annual Time 100 gala again tonight in Manhattan, a party that, like the list itself, brings together world leaders, innovators and celebrities in one place and, unlike the list, forces them to share oxygen with nerdy journalists like myself. (Follow me on Twitter if you want to see what I might say [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 15, 2010

TIME Updates Zuckerberg's Status to "Person of the Year"

By James Poniewozik

In 2006, TIME’s Person of the Year was You; this year, it’s Your Former High School Classmates on Facebook. TIME’s managing editor Rick Stengel this morning announced the Person of the Year for 2010: Facebook founder (and Social Network inspiration) Mark Zuckerberg. (Read Lev Grossman’s 8,000-word profile of him here.)  Because POY is a media [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | May 7, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: Why Team Coco Matters

By James Poniewozik

In this week’s print issue of TIME, my column looks at Conan O’Brien‘s re-emergence on 60 Minutes (and on tour) and how his move to cable is another test of what it means to be a “star” in the age of niche media. Leaving aside the money (which thanks to a production deal, could earn [...]

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Tuned In+April 9, 2010

Programming Note: Salut, Karen Tumulty

By James Poniewozik

There are a lot of nice things about working at TIME, but one of the nicest is how being on the same staff as superior journalists flatters your self-conception. There are still times when I’m flattened by the fact that here I am, basically a guy who yells at his TV in public for a [...]

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Tuned In+September 17, 2009

Glenn Beck on the Cover of TIME: Mad or Glad?

By James Poniewozik

TIME’s cover story this week, by politics writer David von Drehle, is about Glenn Beck. (Cover line: MAD MAN.) I suspect one or two of you have an opinion about it.