They want peace. How do they get it? With belly dancers and hashish, for starters.
Happy Birthday Hulk: Celebrating 50 Years of the Big Green Monster
Girl in Progress? Eva Mendes Spins Her Wheels
Eva Mendes is the cutest Bad Mother around in Patricia Riggen’s amiable but slight single mama drama
From TIME’S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children’s Books
The curmudgeonly author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are sat down to talk about the kinds of stories children like to read and what makes such stories good (and bad)
Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer
For Orwell, being a book critic was hell. But I’m a lot luckier than he was—the job is so different now.
Today’s Movie Trailer: Ben Affleck’s Argo
Based on real events, Argo takes you behind the scenes of the covert operation to rescue six Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The guise of the operation? The hostages are part of a Canadian film crew scouting the Iranian capital for a science fiction movie. It’s the “best bad idea” the CIA has, and it’s Ben …
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TV Tonight: Around the World in 80 Plates
I love Top Chef. I love–well, at least I have loved–The Amazing Race. Around the World in 80 Plates is, on the surface, Top Chef meets The Amazing Race. Twelve chefs start off in London, traveling every week from one …
Dancing with the Stars Watch: Double Trouble
In which we bid adieu to Half Pint and that Disney kid and suffer through a Chris Brown performance
Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies
Two years after Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize, Mantel is back with another dark chapter in her Tudor trilogy
Expectations Soar for No Doubt’s First Album in 11 Years
Eleven years after releasing their last album, No Doubt’s return finally has a date: September 25, 2012.
The Orange County-bred quartet announced the release date of their sixth studio album in a video message over the …
Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012: His Legacy in Books
The beloved children’s book artist died on May 8 at age 83. TIME looks back at the books he wrote and illustrated.
Howard Stern Joins List of Parents Television Council Foes…Again
File this one under d’uh: Deadline Hollywood reports that the Parents Television Council has called on advertisers to jump ship from NBC’s America’s Got Talent now that Howard Stern is replacing Piers Morgan as the show’s …
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NBC Gets a Jump on Upfronts with J.J. Abrams, Lots of Comedy
You may have heard that the NBC network has had a touch of trouble in the ratings lately. A slew of its new shows failed this season; Smash and Grimm will be back but have been, at best, far less than a smash and just better than grim; and its once must-see Thursday now does ratings that would be just respectable on basic cable.
But …