TIME.com: People in the News (August 12, 2003)

For the week of AUGUST 11-17, 2003

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I'M SURE I PARKED HERE SOMEWHERE
This much we know about enigmatic auteur Tim Burton's movie Big Fish, which opens Thanksgiving weekend: it contains a car, a tree and EWAN MCGREGOR. The plot revolves around an old man (Albert Finney) who tells tall tales about himself as a younger man (that would be McGregor), but little else is clear. Is it a fairy tale? "I always like a mixture of all of those elements — funny, sad, real, unreal, all together," says Burton. "I find that's the most accurate description of how I feel every day." Fair enough. So is it a comedy? "I prefer not to say, just in case it's not funny. Then you can say it's a drama."

— Lev Grossman

Sharon Osbourne

		Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) By: J.K. Rowling				Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism By: Ann Coulter				East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) By: John Steinbeck

FROM THE AUGUST 18, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED AUGUST 11, 2003