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...himself or his fans much to laugh at. He was a tough, emotionally constipated cop chasing androids in I, Robot, and an ambitious man who loses his job, his home and his wife - everything but his young son - in The Pursuit of Happyness. Except for a romantic holiday in Hitch, the one-time Fresh Prince has become a stolid, solitary warrior in a gulag of gloom...
...Vamoose bus company—which promised direct Harvard Square-to-New York trips featuring wireless internet—has suspended service entirely as a result of a licensing hitch, just two weeks after the company’s buses began running. The company’s service has been halted since Nov. 26, Vamoose co-owner Florence Bluzenstein said, because the company failed to secure one of the two licenses required to operate out of Cambridge. The company had gotten a “stop-location” allowed Vamoose to stop in front of either the Charles Hotel...
...ready grin, jug ears and baritone belly laugh, Smith's image is that of the happy-go-lucky Everyguy. But you don't accrue $4.4 billion in worldwide box-office receipts and two Oscar nominations without machine-like drive. Smith's four most recent movies--The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch, Shark Tale and I, Robot--have each grossed more than $300 million worldwide, vaulting him into a category usually reserved for white guys named Tom. Because Smith has mastered the delicate art of appearing artless, few moviegoers realize that his is one of Hollywood's most meticulously planned and executed...
...than they support other actors' movies." He has built his global audience systematically: with each film, Smith introduces himself to a new people, often piggybacking on a local event that will attract worldwide attention. For Men in Black II, he toured in South Korea during the World Cup; for Hitch, he hit Brazil during carnival; for next year's fallen-superhero tale Hancock, he's trying to get into Beijing during the Olympics...
...does BPL work? The data signals that travel between the computer and outer cyberspace basically hitch a ride across the city's network of power lines. There's no interference because electrical current and digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...