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Time's 'New Faces of Porn' Spotlights Ron Jeremy: It only took 30 years, but the buttoned-down gang at Time Magazine finally deigned to recognize the world's most famous male porn star on the occasion of his new book The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz. We think our mothers brainstormed to jointly conduct the interview — "How did you get your start in the porn industry?" "What was your path to the porn industry?" "Were your friends shocked that you were doing this?" — but the high-up, uncensored namechecking of San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon seems to have turned a symbolic page from staid newsweekly to prime wanking material. We'll never be bored in the doctor's waiting room again. [TIME]

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Adjective Challenged 'Time' Critic Adapts Nicely to the Lowbrow in 'Vegas' Review

Just when we thought we had seen the best headline of the week over at BBC — "Great Tits Cope Well With Warming" (get your mind out of the gutter! It's about birds) — and the best-possible What Happens in Vegas dismissal (courtesy of a caustic Manohla Dargis), along comes Time Magazine to combine the two distinctions in one revelatory piece of film criticism entitled "What Happens in Vegas Stays Sucky": More »

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Donny Osmond Celebrates Miley Cyrus's Influence by Seeing the Whole VF Thing Coming

Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2008 have been chosen, and as if on cue, Miley Cyrus gets the wide-eyes-and-wonder treatment from none other than Donny Osmond. But this isn't just another convenient thematic tie-in of wholesome media figures — no! Written before the whole Vanity Fair photo flap, Osmond's blurb is easily the most uncannily prescient piece of writing since Paddy Chayefsky sat down to pen Network: More »