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| • | Super Bowl: Why the AFC Rules |
| As Super Bowls go, the Colts title was pretty predictable. And so, already, is next year's. Just go with the AFC champ. |
| • | Rating the Super Bowl Ads |
| After a forgettable slate of commercials, it's time to admit that the golden age of Super Bowl advertising is over. |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: A $3,000 Cold Shower |
| When the Super Bowl is played in a downpour, sometimes the best seats are by the concession stand. |
| • | Movies: A Waking Nightmare |
| Sex, spies und audiotape in corrupt East Germany. |
| • | Vietnam Memorial: Where Memory Endures |
| After 25 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial casts a long shadow. |
| • | Newsmakers: Belinda Carlisle Q&A |
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| • | Super Bowl Diary: The Fans |
| You don't need team jerseys to identify Colts backers from the Chicago crowd |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: Playboy's Bikini Bash |
| In which our correspondent gets vitals at Playboy's Bikini Bash. |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: Bawdy, Belching Boozers |
| For many people, football means consuming mass amounts of alcohol-days before the game starts. |
| • | Q&A: Randy Newman's Newest Satire |
| Mad as hell, the singer-songwriter doffs his film-scoring hat and resettles into a familiar old role as our leading political satirist. |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: Game-Day Performances |
| Before the game and at halftime, Super Bowl viewers will be treated to Prince, Billy Joel and some, well, unusual performances. |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: The Other Miami |
| Prepping for the Super Bowl isn't all fun. In the latest entry in his Super Bowl Diary, our bureau chief takes a 'reality tour.' |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: A Rage, Sort of, in Miami |
| In the second entry of his Super Bowl Diary, our Miami bureau chief takes a hard-hitting look at a party for journalists. |
| • | Super Bowl Diary: Meet the Bears |
| In the first entry of his Super Bowl Diary, our Miami bureau chief goes to media day and finds bears, Bears and a Mexican TV bombshell. |
| • | Jasper Johns: Pop Art's Poppa |
| Long before Warhol's soup cans, Jasper Johns revolutionized painting with works that were right on target. |
| • | America's White Rapper Moment |
| Isn't it time somebody represented for the Clark Kents of the world? Nerdcore hip-hop says 'Darn straight!' And don't think this stuff is parody. |
| • | Q&A: Vanilla Ice on Keeping It Real |
| Vanilla Ice discusses his fall from grace, the long road since and what aspiring white rappers can learn from his mistakes. |
| • | Norah Jones's Smart New Album |
| When she messes with success on her new album, the changes are subtle and smart. |
| • | Will Oscar Finally Toast Peter O'Toole? |
| The legend on awards, aging-and good Scotch |
| • | The Man With Two Brains |
| Whose words these are we thought we knew. But his notebooks show Robert Frost discovering himself. |
| • | Newsmakers: Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Oprah Winfrey |
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| • | David Ansen Deciphers the Oscar Nominations |
| This year's race for best picture (dream on, 'Dreamgirls') is anyone's call, but the critics seem to have the inside track. |
| • | Sundance Shockers: A History of Controversy |
| A horse is a horse, of course, of course, except when it appears as the female lead in a movie at America's premier independent film festival. |
| • | Oscar Roundtable: Brad, Leo, Helen & Co. |
| Only one actor at our Oscar Roundtable really played a monarch. (Unless a zany tyrant counts.) But they all ruled in their 2006 films, and they certainly know how to hold an audience. |
| • | How Ted Haggard Altered Alexandra Pelosi's Film |
| Alexandra Pelosi finished her HBO documentary on evangelical America and then her main guide, Ted Haggard, was ruined by a sex scandal. |
| • | Newsmakers: Jewel, 'Am. Idol' |
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| • | Is Simon the Most Supportive 'Idol' Judge? |
| As 'American Idol' judges up the ante with bigger beat downs, a psychology professor says Cowell's cruel commentary might actually be a good thing. |
| • | Television: Mideast Humor. Seriously |
| 'The Watch List,' Comedy Central's new online show, features (very funny) Americans of Middle-Eastern descent. |
| • | Television: The Macho Baker Is Back |
| The host of the Food Network's hit show 'Ace of Cakes' on why his kitchen essentials include a drill, saw and blowtorch. |
| • | A Book Reviewer's Dilemma |
| Our reviewer liked the first 100 pages of Vikram Chandra's new novel. If he'd loved them, he might have finished the book. |
| • | 'American Idol' Wannabes: Meet the Rejects |
| 'American Idol' is back, and so are the groupies who audition for it over and over (and over) again. Will they ever make it to Hollywood? |
| • | Television: Rating the Golden Globes |
| From trashy to classy, the Golden Globe awards have it all. |
| • | Stop or They'll Shoot! |
| A new reality show turns D-list celebrities into gun-toting crimefighters. What could possibly go wrong? |
| • | Television: No Place Like 'Rome' |
| Virgil's Aeneid and HBO's lurid series about the Caesars couldn't be more different-and more alike. |
| • | Cosby's Darkest Hours |
| In a book excerpt, a NEWSWEEK reporter recalls her talks with the grieving star after his son's 1997 murder. |
| • | Newsmakers: Mia Farrow, David Beckham, Jack Nicholson |
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| • | How Friends Finished Steve Irwin's Last Film |
| Steve Irwin's death almost derailed the filming of Animal Planet's 'Ocean's Deadliest.' Then his friends decided to finish it in his memory. |
| • | Television: Jack's Back |
| After a lame first hour, the new season of '24' gets back to what it does best: imagining the unimaginable. |
| • | Movies: Stepping on 'Stomp the Yard' |
| 'Stomp the Yard' takes on the subject of black fraternities-and touches off a controversy. |
| • | Movies: Interview With James Cameron |
| Eleven years after his record-breaking success with 'Titanic,' the director starts another movie-that he says will take four years to finish. |
| • | Music: Lily Allen Finally Comes to America |
| Lily Allen's songs are sugar-puff pastries with acid filling. Get them while they're still (sorta) hot. |
| • | Excerpt: Allison Samuels's 'Off the Record' |
| In a chapter from her new book, 'Off the Record' Allison Samuels talks to Eddie Murphy on his way back to the top |
| • | Is a Violent Videogame Art? |
| After a gaming festival drops Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (yes, it's what you think) from consideration, other videogame makers drop out in protest. Is it art, or just offensive? |
| • | How Friends Finished Steve Irwin's Last Film |
| Steve Irwin's death almost derailed the filming of Animal Planet's 'Ocean's Deadliest.' Then his friends decided to finish it in his memory. |
| • | Books: The Devil Wears Swastikas |
| Norman Mailer's new novel is a Hitler-family saga, with superstar guests. Maybe fiction isn't his real calling after all. |
| • | Spycraft as Thespianage |
| Hollywood's latest forays into the postwar intelligence community get the period detail right-and miss the point. |
| • | Newsmakers: Renee, O.J. and Whitney |
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| • | Theater: Broadway Preview |
| Eric Bogosian, Liev Schreiber, Kander & Ebb (and Rupert Holmes), Joan Didion, Vanessa Redgrave-need we say more? |
| • | Interactive Design: Where Tech Meets Art |
| Industrial designer Bill Moggridge mines the history of interactive design to better understand how we mortals interact with technology. |
| • | Books: Marriage, Tragedy and Music |
| Rob Sheffield's memoir of a happy marriage, a tragic death and the music that bound it all together. |
| • | Oprah Winfrey's Lavish South African School |
| True, the world's most successful woman has always shared her wealth. But her latest project is really one for the books. |
