On the debate stage, he emerges from behind his podium and stalks the stage, alarming the moderator (“Return to your podium!”), while delivering something like a Robin Williams rant, easy-targeting Enron, Congressional bills on flag burning, and border “security.” The studio audience loves him, post-debate journalists refer to his “undisciplined behavior,” and suddenly, it looks like Tom might win some few percentage points in the election. For this performance, he’s inspired to mouth off. His montage-sequence audiences appear bored, eyes rolling and mouths agape, signs of worse to come.Īt last, Tom is invited to participate in a presidential debate, with his interchangeable opponents, Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger. At first, the story goes, he makes his campaign sober and non-substantive, like other campaigns: he devises a stump speech, much to the horror of Jack and his writers, headed by Eddie (Lewis Black, slightly subdued), which he repast to snoozy effects. Taking seriously the much-repeated truism that increasing numbers of consumers “get their news” from self-described comedy shows, Man of the Year imagines that a comedian would be able to assemble the team, money, and apparatus to run for president.
(A couple of deft smiles render him positively charming and sweet-seeming, which, if you think about it, makes for a new kind of chilling the man is a genius.) Walken’s Jack Menken appears in a couple of time frames in Man of the Year, as narrator looking back, and as the participant/observer in the story he tells, that is, the election of his client, a comedian named Tom Dobbs (Robin Williams) as president of the U.S.
Nikita Khrushchev, who succeeded Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union, was picked as 'Time Person of the Year' in 1957.You’re in trouble when the most original element in your movie is a cuddly Christopher Walken. "Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself," the magazine said of Stalin. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was chosen as 'Time Person of the Year' twice - in 19. "Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today," the magazine wrote. Here are the names that made it to the list:Īdolf Hitler was Person of the Year in 1938. "Adolf Hitler, for example, was Person of the Year in 1938, with a cover showing him playing a ghastly organ and a cover line touting, 'From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate'," they write.Ī video by Cover Media takes a look at seven of 'Time' magazine's most shocking pics for 'Person Of The Year'. However 'Time' magazine also clarifies that this does not necessarily mean that its person of the year is always a hero. The title goes to "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse," former Managing Editor Walter Isaacson wrote in the 1998 issue, according to 'Time' magazine. Every year, United States news magazine 'Time' recognises a "person or group of people" who had "the greatest influence on the events of the year-for better or worse." The 'Time Person of the Year' is announced in December and makes it to the magazine's cover in a tradition that dates back to 1927.