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We’re please to say that TIME.com managing editor Catherine Sharick has been named one of Folio’s 40 Individuals Creating a New Chapter for the Publishing Industry.
She took over the helm of the digital arm of TIME in January after 10 years of experience at the site. “From when I started with TIME in 2002 to now, our print magazine writers’ enthusiasm to write for the Web has grown,” she told Folio. “I’ve worked for a long time to integrate print and digital efforts with our staff, and it’s now a very integrated place.”
What happens when a gangly male reporter joins the U.S. women’s Olympic synchronized swimming team? Oh, just watch. TIME’s Sean Gregory gets a first-hand look at just how difficult the sport really is.
The latest issue of TIME features an interview with actress Maya Rudolph as part of our 10 Questions series. Our Belinda Luscombe sat down with the SNL alum in the TIME offices; here they are at Maya’s photo shoot.
Photo: Erik Tanner for TIME
![In next week’s issue of TIME, our Catherine Mayer profiles actress Tilda Swinton, visiting her in Scotland to talk about Swinton’s new film, We Need To Talk About Kevin. In it, Swinton plays Eva Khatchadourian, the conflicted mother of a teenager whose monstrous killing spree may partly reflect Eva’s own failings. Says Mayer about her trip:
“At Inverness airport — she insists on delivering me to my homeward plane — Swinton spots a toy crossbow for sale, complete with arrows tipped with suckers. Soon an arrow is planted in the middle of her forehead and she holds up the crossbow for a photograph. “I would say that’s a definite cover option, if not an alternative poster for [Kevin’s] worldwide release,” she emails later.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvw8kmDwRU1qcy1c2o1_500.jpg)
In next week’s issue of TIME, our Catherine Mayer profiles actress Tilda Swinton, visiting her in Scotland to talk about Swinton’s new film, We Need To Talk About Kevin. In it, Swinton plays Eva Khatchadourian, the conflicted mother of a teenager whose monstrous killing spree may partly reflect Eva’s own failings. Says Mayer about her trip:
“At Inverness airport — she insists on delivering me to my homeward plane — Swinton spots a toy crossbow for sale, complete with arrows tipped with suckers. Soon an arrow is planted in the middle of her forehead and she holds up the crossbow for a photograph. “I would say that’s a definite cover option, if not an alternative poster for [Kevin’s] worldwide release,” she emails later.”
How TIME Saved ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
“In 1963, I did a documentary on Willie Mays, the world’s best baseball player and one on Charlie Brown, the world’s worst. We sold the Mays documentary, but never sold the Charlie Brown documentary. Three years later, TIME Magazine put the [Peanuts] characters on its cover and we got calls from advertisers and networks asking if we were still thinking of doing an animated show, and that’s what led us to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
We had done a couple of minutes of animation in the documentary but people said, “You can’t have kids who talk like adults.” We had given up, but when Coca-Cola called after the TIME cover they asked if we’d ever thought of doing a Christmas show and I lied and said, “Oh, absolutely.” So they asked us to send them an outline on Monday. I called Schulz on the phone and said, “I think I just sold A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and he said, “What’s that?” and I told him, “It’s something you’re going to write tomorrow.”
When we first did the Christmas special the network thought it was awful. There was a TIME Magazine writer who wanted to see it and they told me that I’d better not let him see it, but I said, “It’ll be worse if we don’t.” So I sit in the room alone with the TIME magazine critic as he watches and he doesn’t say a word, doesn’t take any notes, gets up and leaves. I said, “Oh my God, we’re dead.” Two days later the review came out and it was a whole page calling it the greatest cartoon ever made. I remember it saying, “it’s going to run for 100 years.” TIME Magazine saved our butts. Twice.”
- Longtime Peanuts TV specials producer Lee Mendelson in an interview with TIME
Happy Veterans Day to TIME’s own Iraq War veteran, Nate Rawlings.
Read about some of his experiences on TIME.com:
“Stuffed into the backseat of the station wagon, I clenched my fists to make sure my hands weren’t shaking. The first time I drove this road was in 2006; my first glimpse of Baghdad was from the commander’s hatch of a Bradley fighting vehicle. After that day, I led or participated in more than 400 missions and patrols. We would lurch down the highways and through Baghdad’s neighborhoods, sucking on cigarettes and praying that the roadside garbage didn’t hide improvised explosive devices that would suddenly erupt.”
