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...Digital single-lens-reflex (SLR) cameras are vulnerable to dust settling on the imaging sensor when you change the lens. Result: black dots on your pictures. The Olympus Evolt E-300 digital SLR ($1,000; with starter lens) solves the problem by covering the imaging sensor with a transparent ultrasonic panel that shakes off offending particles at 35,000 vibrations per second...
...soft-core film, Teas,, had been a comedy with a gimmick (a man is able to see women naked); Throat had a more ingenious twist, was a cleverer film and a genial buoyancy. And where else were audiences going to see a woman with such control over her gag reflex? Granted, when they saw the film, some viewers couldn't control theirs, but most were diverted. It soon became the date movie du jour...
...appear to be unaware, even though they are. A CT scan of Schiavo’s brain (available at http://www.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/CT%20scan.png) reveals that the majority of her brain is liquefied. But, sadly, to a hopeful parent, movements and sounds can indicate some sort of response rather than reflex. Cases involving PVSs—and there are many—often are difficult for precisely that reason...
...Foxx would lead the parade. His nailing of Charles' mannerisms (the stutter at the start of a sentence, the reflex smile, the hugging gesture that thanks a crowd for its cheers) might echo Foxx's In Living Color days. But this is more than a stunt. He carves a complex character out of what could have been hagiography. Foxx's performance, like the film, is sympathetic but not sentimental. It is as true as the blues to Charles' pain, as ecstatic as rock 'n' roll to his triumph. It sings, and it swings. --By Richard Corliss
...stars' prime concern has been to avoid defamation of characters ... Randall can play Felix almost by reflex action. The big problem is to keep the series' scriptwriters from turning the neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. 'I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do,' says Randall. Fans should not be misled by ... his nutball performances on TV talk shows. Tony Randall is a serious actor whose dream is to wind up in a good repertory company...