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What do Madonna, Britney and Gwen have in common? Pharrell Williams.
Who says there's nothing on? Our critic finds plenty of new material to cure the summertime blues.
After a NEWSWEEK writer described her letters to celebrity crushes, readers offered their own confessions.
In 'Hancock,' Will Smith attempts to deconstruct the superhero genre, to sub-super effect.
'Ganja Queen,' an HBO documentary, explores the case of an Australian drug smuggler. Or was she?
A - Crooked dad. B - Bad checks, C - Alleged pope scam, D - All of the above
1. "Los Olvidados." Luis Buñuel's film is a searing indictment of urban conditions—but also a dark fable.
Early in the new "Indiana Jones" sequel, our creaky, 65-year-old hero stumbles onto a nuclear test site, and the warning siren is blaring. Panicked, surrounded by Potemkin houses, he folds himself inside the lead-lined cavity of a refrigerator. Kaboom: the blast sends Indy hurtling across the New Mexico desert, a mushroom cloud rising behind him. He lands and, logic be damned, tumbles out unscathed. The franchise, though, will never recover.
A - $275,000, B - $2.7 Million, C - $27 Million, D- $270 Million
A – Italy, B – Sweden, C – Israel, D - India
The buzz on "The New York City Waterfalls" was loud enough that a boatload of reporters chugged out into New York Harbor one recent steamy morning with the installation's artist, Olafur Eliasson, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a first, up-close look at the project: four cascades, ranging in height from 90 to 120 feet, installed at sites along the East River. The falls work by an elaborate system that pumps water up from the river, then lets it tumble down a tower of scaffolding. Not that you need to get on a boat to see them. There are good vantage spots along the river—and that's the point, says the 41-year-old Danish Icelandic artist. He wants New Yorkers to explore the waterfront that most of them have turned their backs on, to see their city in a new way. The day the project opened, the tumbling curtains of water reflected the gray skies: they looked remarkable but not quite as spectacular as you might have thought, coming up against the powerful cityscape around them. But the falls will change in every sort of weather and time of day—and when lit at night, they have an ethereal beauty. Their success doesn't depend only on the four almost surrealistic walls of water, or the artist who made them. As Eliasson put it, "It's not about me. It really belongs to the people of the city."
Hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash talks about his new memoir and the state of music today.
Director Kevin Smith remembers George Carlin
The comedian taught me much more than naughty language.
It must have been really painful for Tiger Woods to play an entire tournament—including a 19-hole playoff—with a double stress fracture in his leg. But you know who's hurting more? CBS, NBC, ABC, TNT and the Golf Channel. Over the last three years, Tiger-less tournaments have attracted, on average, 2 million fewer viewers than ones he played in. Too bad the networks can't ask for a mulligan.
Bill O'Reilly is mad at us. Last week NEWSWEEK mocked his new book's title, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity," and O'Reilly went on air to denounce our editor, Jon Meacham: "NEWSWEEK has really gone off the rails with its far-left posture," he said. "For destroying a once fine magazine, Meacham is a pinhead." Far left, we would debate. Pinhead? … Still, having started this literary discussion, we feel duty-bound to offer more-constructive criticism. Hence, these alternate titles for O'Reilly's book:
The trailers for the action movie "Wanted" promise some hot romantic sparks between stars Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. "Is this when we start to bond?" asks McAvoy. "Would you like to?" Jolie purrs. Then there's a shot of the two smooching. The thing is, that first rooftop scene isn't even in the movie and the kiss (which is) has nothing to do with romance. There is no love story. At all.
1. "Lawrence of Arabia" David Lean, the master of filmmaking. I've watched this movie on a big screen over 20 times. His sense of staging and editing is awe-inspiring.
The 'High School Musical' star says the latest installment could be the last of the series. Oh, and what about Zac Efron?
My teen idols never answered my fan letters, but that doesn't mean writing them was a waste of time.
