The arrival of Labor Day means one thing: our favorite season is coming to an end. To mark the end of summer, TIME takes a look at movies with copious amounts of perspiration.
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JPTV Jr.: 104 Days of Summer
One of the most popular kids’ shows in this country today begins by giving its audience a cruel musical taunt. “There’s 104 days of summer vacation,” opens the lyric of Phineas and Ferb, Disney’s cartoon about the outlandish adventures of two stepbrothers, their family, their friends and their platypus, Perry, who unbeknownst to them is …
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Dead Tree Alert: Time of the Season
For Labor Day weekend, this week’s TIME magazine includes our summer fall Arts preview. (Usual caveat: you need to subscribe to read the whole thing.) Because television must share space in it with the lesser arts, such as film, visual art and books, the TV section gets only a page in the magazine, and includes just a quick selection of …
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What’s Next for AMC: Reality, Kevin Smith, 30 More Minutes of Zombies
If you missed it the other day, New York magazine’s Joe Adalian had an excellent analysis of what’s behind the recent business and p.r. problems at AMC. It’s worth reading in full, but one major point in brief: all those times you wondered how in the world they could afford to produce HBO-type shows on a basic-cable budget? Turns out …
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TVGuide.com Says You’re Excited About These Shows. Is It Right?
TVGuide.com has put out its list of the most anticipated new fall TV shows of 2011, according to a survey of its users. The first three are unsurprising, unsurprising and—yeah, I guess a little surprising. At #1: Terra Nova, of …
Midnight in Paris. And 2 a.m. And 4 a.m.
Serge Gainsbourg comes back to life in a dreamy biopic
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Is a Better Idea than You’d Think
It’s kind of like ‘The Big Chill’, without the funeral, clothes or ethical restraint
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The Blu-Ray Menace; or, Who Really Owns Star Wars?
You may recently have noticed a disturbance in the Force, as if billions of voices suddenly got royally pissed off and cried out in Internet discussion threads. The impetus: a report, later confirmed by the New York Times’ Dave …
Detective Dee: A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami
Tsui Hark’s latest is an action spectacle, a tender-tragic love story and has enough deadly political scheming to fill a Gaddafi playbook
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Summer School Report Card: What's Been the Show of the Season?
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It’s probably going to be a slow couple of weeks for coverage of current TV here because (1) it’s fall-screener season, which means I’m spending much of my time watching shows that won’t air for weeks or longer; and (2) it’s late August, so whaddyagonnado?
So this is as good a morning as any, …
All-TIME 100 Nonfiction Books
Politics and war, science and sports, memoir and biography — there’s a great big world of nonfiction books out there just waiting to be read. We picked the 100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the …
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While I Was Out: Let Slip the Ducks of War
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My first day back at work, I’ve been catching up on some screeners and episodes I missed while I was away, which is another way of saying that I have no real problems. One of those was “Duckling,” the hourlong episode of Louie set in Afghanistan, and while it’s too late and time too short for …
The Debt: The Spy and the Gynecologist
This bracing political thriller is a welcome tonic for the end of a sluggish summer at the movies