The Last American Man
Eustace Conway is not like any man you know. He’s got perfect vision, perfect balance, perfect reflexes and travels thorugh life with perfect equanimity. He is smart and fearless and believes he can do anything he sets his mind to — like saving America
The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian
He’s a boxer, a Buddhist, a hoops junkie, and a kind of Yoda to every funny person born since 1965 (Sandler, Silverman, Apatow, Gervais, Baron Cohen…). A rare sparring session with Garry Shandling, the reclusive master of American comedy
Razing Arizona
Deep in the desert Southwest, a battle is raging between an ex-maverick presidential nominee and a defeated congressman with a checkered history (and a penchant for bad jokes). In any other election cycle, this contest would be a laugher. But this year: Arizona’s voters are royally pissed! Robert Draper goes inside the most entertaining race of 2010
I Was With Coco
A year ago, Todd Levin got the job of a lifetime—writing for ‘The Tonight Show.’ Nine months later, he was packing his desk. Now he recounts what it was really like: helping reboot a fifty-six-year-old franchise; watching his boss, Conan O’Brien, get screwed; and saying good-bye to the funniest late-night show to barely exist
Eat No Evil
Thanks—or no thanks—to the new high priests and hipster philosophers of the food world, lately it feels like everything on the menu comes with a heaping side order of guilt: Is that mâche local and roof-raised? What’s the carbon footprint of your burger? Was your salmon farm-slaughtered or delicately line-caught? It’s enough to put a man off his meal. But not Alan Richman. The man who’s always been the Defender of the Appetite makes a thirty-day pilgrimage from perfectly sustainable farm to perhaps unsustainable sea to, uh, chicken coop in search of what it means to eat ethically—and still savor the pleasures of eating—in the twenty-first century
Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now
He is one of the greatest comic actors alive. A man who’s navigated his career with a peerless instinct for quality and self-respect. The man behind movies—from Caddyshack to Stripes, from Rushmore to Lost in Translation—that seem to have defined a dozen different moments in our cultural life. But he is also a man beholden to no one, not the studios, not the audience, not even an agent. And as he sits down with Dan Fierman to discuss everything from the lameness of Ron Howard to the genius of Kung Fu Hustle, you can be pretty sure he’s going to tell you exactly what he thinks
Shock and Ow!
Every three minutes, someone somewhere is getting tased by a law-enforcement officer. It is always painful, occasionally deadly, and likely to result in a hilarious YouTube video. But if you think the Taser is scary, wait until you see the stunning parental device the company is coming out with next
He’s No Dummy
He’s graduated from high school sitcoms to the Hollywood A-list and a role as a 3-D supervillain in ‘Despicable Me,’ but the resolutely down-to-earth Jason Segel remains both freak and geek.
Boom
Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them. Sean Flynn re-creates their long, harrowing, heart-pounding night
Tony Curtis, The Last of the Playboys
For a guy who started life as Bernard Schwartz, son of a struggling tailor in the Bronx, Tony Curtis has done alright for himself.