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...tutorial in how to make people laugh. He would parry with two animals seen on camera only as long paws: White Fang, "the biggest, meanest dog in the United States," and Black Tooth, "the nicest dog in the United States." Or he would go to the back door and greet some (usually unseen) visitor. One was his "girlfriend" Peaches - represented visually by Sales in a blond wig and baggy dress and vocally by either Adler or Frank Nastasi, who did the puppeteering from the mid-'60s on - with whom he'd engage in buckshot banter. (Peaches: "Will you always adore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...made moves to find story lines and characters elsewhere, paying $4 billion to buy Marvel Entertainment merely to get access to some of its lesser superheroes. (The big ones, like Spider-Man, are already spoken for.) Comic-book characters can't give concerts or go to a meet-and-greet or record songs for Disney end credits. But at least Thor and Captain America won't be caught in compromising situations by a camera phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making New Mileys: Disney's Teen-Star Factory | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...madly complex and simply mad. He executes the killers in approved mad-scientist fashion - one by remote control in prison, the other by surgically removing precious body parts and injecting him with "poison from the liver of a Caribbean puffer fish" - and, when the police arrive, strips naked to greet them, as if he were Leonidas facing the Persians at Thermopylae. Shelton is put in prison, and that's where the murder games begin in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...military politicians and trade-union members. Ordinary Guineans, who had once been enthralled by his vociferous television appearances, over the past few weeks started demanding a change of power in several anti-government demonstrations. About 60,000 people gathered at Conakry's airport earlier this month to greet opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, expected to be one of the top candidates in next year's presidential election, when he returned from a trip overseas. (See pictures of the scourge of the Guinea worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violent Crackdown Shatters Democracy Hopes in Guinea | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...housewarming gift of a Gothic D (for the mantel) plus a keg of his Badass Beer - and others will stay there while reporting. The house will be a gathering place and a clearinghouse; we've already had Mayor Dave Bing over for dinner and thrown a lawn party to greet our new neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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