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The wizard of "Watchmen" The wizard of "Watchmen"

Alan Moore talks about his career, his favorite characters and his bad influence on the comics world.
  • Alan Moore's environmental monster

    The genius behind "Watchmen" redefined both the audience and the narrative possibilities of comic books with his newly reissued "Saga of the Swamp Thing."
  • Beyond rescue

    As his book "Why We Suck" hits the shelves, Denis Leary talks about lazy parenting, the media storm surrounding his views on autism, and the omnipotence of Oprah.
  • Songs for Obama

    From Jamaica to Kenya and all across Europe, musicians are paying tribute to the presidential candidate who puts a song in their heart.
  • Don't call her Mrs. Corleone

    Eleanor Coppola -- Francis Ford's wife and Sofia's mom -- talks about life in a famous Italian-American family and finding her artistic voice.
  • Tangled up in Dylan

    Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.
  • The sexiest man living!

    Forget that other list. We pick the men who really set our hearts aflame -- and there's nary a pretty-boy actor among them.
  • What's real in "Borat"?

    Everything you wanted to know about the Kazakh road trip -- what was staged, who was an actor, and who was just hapless comedy roadkill.
  • The 9/11 deniers

    The success of the documentary "Loose Change" spotlights the thousands of online sleuths who believe the U.S. government was behind the terror attacks -- to get gold, justify war, or serve Satan.
  • He said "penis"!

    Warning: The way a right-wing "parents" group is wasting the FCC's time might just make you (dare we say it?) "pissed."
  • "Shark Tale" hooks movie-goers with $49.1 million

  • MTV awards tamer than past shows

  • Jessica Simpson may play Daisy Duke

  • Lopez denies wedding rumors

  • Courtney Love does the math

    The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
  • The fearless celebrity shooters

    The VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards brought out the best in celebrities -- and the worst in the photographers who hounded them.
  • The Jim Carrey Show

    Can the spirit of Andy Kaufman give the comic actor the courage to chart his own course?
  • The adaptation racket

    "Mansfield Park" trashes Jane Austen's novel, but Von Stroheim's "Greed" masterfully uncovers creatures of the id.
  • Breaking character

    With lead roles in three new films, Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the great character actors of the '90s, is about to hit the big time. Are we sure we want him to?
  • "The Bone Collector"

    With a knick-knack, paddy-wack, Phillip Noyce makes this "Bone" a dog.
  • "American Movie"-maker

    Chris Smith wins the indie-film lottery with his documentary about another struggling independent filmmaker.
  • "Being John Malkovich"

    Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15 minutes of fame" theory.
  • "Music of the Heart"

    Wes Craven genre-hops, stumbles and makes a sappy melodrama.
  • "Dreaming of Joseph Lees"

    Samantha Morton, the best actress to emerge in the last decade, finds a film deserving of her talents.
  • "I want a dream when I go to a film"

    David Lynch, the human tuning fork, talks about his most unusual movie -- a G-rated adventure about a man, a lawnmower and an emotional journey.
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