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On The Scene With Mark Twain Prize Honoree Will Ferrell
On Sunday night, Will Ferrell took to the red carpet inside Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center dressed in a lush blue velvet jacket, complete with velvet bow tie and pocket square. He had arrived to become the 14th recipient of the …
In This Week’s TIME: Modern Warfare 3 vs. Battlefield 3 … Fight!
If your computer were this week’s issue of Time, you could read a piece I co-wrote with Evan Narcisse of Kotaku on the upcoming retail rumble between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Not Out of the Woods Yet
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, have your servant bring the cocoa and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
In a quote that you are probably tired by now of hearing critics like me repeat, playwright Anton Chekhov …
Photos: From Ella to Sinatra, TIME’s Best Crooners
A photo gallery of the pre-rock singers on our All-TIME 100 Songs list
The Walking Dead Recap: ‘Bloodletting’
For an episode titled “Bloodletting” there was surprisingly little of it last night.What we got instead were outpourings of emotion and frustration. Two entries in, and it’s already clear that the show wants to strike a balance …
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All-TIME 100 Songs
Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. Here are 100 (unranked) songs of enduring beauty, power and inventiveness
Paranormal 3 is Metafantastic
The third in the series of low-budget spook sonatas woke up the sleepy autumn box office with the best-ever opening for an October film
Bernard Herrmann at 100: Music of the Fears
On his centenary, a tribute to the Master of Musical Suspense, who gave viewers shivers with his superb scores for Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver.
John Hawkes’ Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal
Everyone loves Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now, some adulation for the movie’s cult leader John Hawkes.
Singers Quoting Nietzsche’s “What Doesn’t Kill Me…”
It might make them stronger, but it still doesn’t make them original.
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TV Weekend: Once Upon a Time
There is a school of thought in Hollywood that the best way to tell an audience a story is to make it one they’ve heard before. Hence the revival of multiple comic-book franchises, the (failed) rebooting of Charlie’s Angels and …
Elizabeth Olsen: Sister Number Three Rises to the Top
There is a softness to the way Elizabeth Olsen moves on screen, as if her joints are made of recently melted wax. Simultaneously tough and unabashedly feminine, she can stretch out like a sleepy cat in one scene and coil up as if …