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...Girl concept may be outlandish, but Ex List is also fresh and raunchily funny (there's a scene in the pilot comparing feminine-waxing choices to historical figures - the "Hitler," the "Gandhi"), and Reaser is winning and adorable. If you can check your skepticism at the psychic's bead curtain, it's a charming, funny, undemanding escape - a sort of romantic procedural. Any praise for the show needs an asterisk, though, because the original producer-writer, Diane Ruggiero, recently quit in a creative dispute with CBS, which she said resisted the changes she wanted to make from the original Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...energy policy, they erupted into chants of "Drill, baby, drill!!!" In place of the old white men, the podium featured a Latino farmer's son turned California state senator, impressive female CEOs and entrepreneurs, conservative black activists, apostate Democrats and, to deafening cheers, loyal Republican losers who raised the curtain on the surprise winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Palin's Breakout Night | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

With instant online access to politicians' voting records, policy positions and statements, voters have access to more information than ever about their presidential candidates. So, it would appear that record numbers of Americans will use the Web to root out the information they need before drawing the election-booth curtain this November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web's Word: Obama Is Not the Antichrist | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...when TIME's James Carney and Michael Scherer were invited to the front of McCain's plane recently for an interview, they were ushered forward, past the curtain that now separates reporters from the candidate, past the sofa that was designed for his gabfests with the press and taken straight to the candidate's seat. McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured. The McCain on display in the 24-minute interview was prickly, at times abrasive, and determined not to stray off message. An excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Prickly TIME Interview | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

Those delegates are all arriving now and the show is on the road. The man behind the curtain isn't too worried. "You can't plan for every option or any problem that might come up," Nugen says. "But we have a really crack team, a very talented team with years of convention experience. They've left no detail unturned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' Master of Ceremonies | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

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