Regis Philbin, the legendary talk-show host, has logged a record-setting 16,700 hours on camera throughout his career. As he steps down from hosting Live With Regis and Kelly, TIME looks back at a television career that spanned decades.
Offensive What? Ricky Gervais to Host 2012 Golden Globes
Ricky Gervais will return to host the 69th annual Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association confirmed today.
This will be Gervais’ third year in a row hosting the awards telecast despite the fact that he drew …
Today’s Movie Trailer: Brave—Pixar’s Princess Movie
The studio behind the bulk of the past decade’s great animated films has released a full-length trailer for its next film. Brave, out next June, is Pixar’s first film to star a female protagonist (voiced by Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald).
William Shatner’s Bizarre Thanksgiving Safety PSA
Thanksgiving is just one week away, which means that you’ll soon be forced to make that annual trip to the grocery store to purchase a turkey. But if you’re thinking about deep-frying your bird this year, William Shatner has some advice for you. And he has put it in the form of this very odd public service announcement, sponsored by …
Behind the List: The Making of TIME’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Or 20, really, since we do 10 novels and 10 non-fiction books.
There are years when I’m absolutely burning to put up my top 10 lists, like I want to chisel them on a tablet and come down a mountain with them and proclaim them …
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Glee Watch: Monstrous Mash
Quick spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I’ll keep my issue with “Mash-Off” brief, because it is essentially the problem I had with last week’s (much superior) “The First Time.” Here’s the thing: Glee is itself a mash-up. At base, it’s a story about kids (and teachers) in Ohio with real, believable problems—a little unrealistic, …
‘Dancing with the Stars’, Week 9 Results: No More Hope
Last night on Dancing with the Stars was the end of the semis. Next week, someone will bring home the Mirror Ball Trophy. So, who’s going to the finals?
The verdict: Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy samba’d into the sunset. …
Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?
Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help readers escape deep into …
Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don’t)
From Benny Hill to the jingle for the original iPhone, ten tunes that you’ve heard many times before, yet are still in the dark about.
The Descendants: George Clooney’s Tragedy in Paradise
Alexander Payne’s tale of a grieving Honolulu husband has been touted as Oscar bait but it’s closer to Hawaii Five-No
Exclusive Video: Steve Jobs Talks the ‘Magic’ of Innovation in Lost Interview
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
Britney Spears Does Marilyn Manson
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 can watch it …
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The Morning After: The Good, the Sad and the Odd, in a Night of Big Interviews
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 a …