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In an interview with TIME, Schröder, 61, vowed he would prevail. "Giving up is not one of my character traits," he said. But lately the leader of the world's third largest economy has certainly looked in political peril. The nation's unemployment rate is at a post-World...
Then there's Valerie Cherish, whom you'll recall as the star of the seminal late-'80s, early-'90s sitcom I'm It. O.K., you won't recall her: she's a character, played by ex-Friend Lisa Kudrow, on the HBO sitcom The Comeback (Sundays, 9:30 p.m. E.T...
Kudrow has a different take. "Reality," she says, "is humiliation TV." Humiliation--how much of it a person will take for fame--is the point of The Comeback. Kudrow invented a similar character years ago, when she was in the Groundlings improv group. After Friends, she called Michael Patrick King...
Oddly enough, Baer is the most shaded character in the film, in his way prefiguring a more modern ambiguity. But the film is most significantly about puzzled people trying to comprehend the cosmic reversal of fortune that was the Depression. They don't have much more than raw courage and...
Unlike a film though, we get to read Mark and Ingrid's thoughts. This crucial insight clues us into each character's secret motivations. Ingrid, for example, recalls cheating on Mark with his roommate, unbeknownst to him. So she uses her guilt to rationalize the clearly bad move of meeting...