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...visitors there are 175,000 different opinions on what constitutes best of show. Nonetheless, Williams came back with some winners. Universally loved was the tree-branch chandelier designed by Tord Boontje using Swarovski crystal. Williams selected only one of Milan's reissues: the "bad-tempered chair," designed by Ron Arad and made of carbon fiber by Vitra, was originally launched by Vitra as the "well-tempered" chair and made of stainless steel in the 1987. Also of interest at the V&A is the section titled "One Designer's Fair," a look at a variety of items by Dutch designer...
According to Arad, the maturation of "comic-book geeks" into powerful artists like Singer, Ang Lee (who will direct The Hulk) and Tim Burton (who directed the first two Batmans and is penciled in for Superman) has coincided with the technological developments. "The last four years' advances have made all the difference," he says. The Britain-based special-effects house Framestore, which worked on Blade 2, says that the film required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want...
...relive the feeling you had when you were young and dazzled by fairy tales filled with giants and monsters. And now we finally have the cinematic technology to do them justice." Lee's innovation was the creation of (his words) "superheroes with superproblems." Marvel Comics' film division CEO Avi Arad - one of the key players in the movie adaptations market - believes their humanity gives supermen and -women contemporary appeal. "The characters are pained," he says, pointing to The X-Men's antiracism overtones. "Through them we deal with the real world and real emotions...
...once held by Hizballah were free, there was little concern about a serious outcry from Washington. (Beyond deploring the "rising cycle of violence," the U.S. State Department warned of the increased danger of terrorist attacks against Americans in the region.) And Israel's concerns for its missing airman, Ron Arad, who fell into Hizballah's hands after a 1986 Israeli raid, have shifted; he is now believed to be dead or held by different captors...
Israel is worried that it has not completed the deal yet, but is willing to trade almost 300 Lebanese prisoners, along with kidnapped Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Hizballah cleric, for one possible Israeli survivor, air force Captain Ron Arad, and the remains of five other servicemen...