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Some of these masterworks are known only in diluted form. E.C. Segar's newspaper strip Thimble Theatre lent its most popular character, Popeye, to cartoons. So did George Herriman with his Krazy Kat and R. Crumb, to his immediate and lingering regret, with Fritz the Cat. (Winsor McCay, who created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes they'll write a character for a Native person and then say, "Well, there's no Native actors that can capture the intensity of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Adam Beach | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Adam Beach | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

Curious about his quest, I found Seracini through a local Florentine politician who has been acting as the modern-day equivalent of a Renaissance-era public patron for this cutting-edge cultural pursuit. As we stand under the palazzo's vaulted frescoes, Seracini lures me into his obsessive world, enumerating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking a Real-Life Da Vinci Code | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

Like exhausted mining towns the world over, Yubari faced extinction, but during the 1980s and '90s, city officials tried to arrest its economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars - with generous help from the central government - to build massive tourist facilities such as the melon museum, the robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We Can Be Proud That Nobody Has Committed Suicide" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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