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...adapted La Cage aux Folles as well as other farces, is a veteran of this sort of thing. His movies are slick, simple and irresistibly funny. Like all boulevard comedians, he understands that it is sex that drives everyone crazy. But of course not so much as a top button gets undone in The Dinner Game, despite the amount of libidinal energy running loose in Pierre's apartment and leaking down the telephone lines to a world just itching to compound the confusion...
...successes of stories like The Perfect Storm, Into Thin Air and The Endurance would suggest that the E-ZPass, "we deliver" world is yearning--if only in its dreams--for situations of hardship and danger. Death doesn't even seem to attend war anymore; Kosovo showed that a push-button war could be casualty-free, at least for those who pushed the buttons. Routine phrases today such as "living on the edge" and "pushing the envelope" only indicate how smooth most surfaces are, and how snug most envelopes...
...direction is not much help in establishing the false calm out of which true suspense might be built. He's one of those music-video refugees for whom you want to take up a collection so he can add a tripod and an editing machine with a functioning Pause button to his filmmaking arsenal...
...assume the UMAX folks sent along the 2000U to demonstrate the obvious superiority of its brother. The machines are nearly identical, and do 36-bit color scanning relatively fast (about 30 sec. for an acceptable 300-dpi resolution of a snapshot). The difference is that the 2100U has buttons on the front for one-click scanning or copying. (Yes, copying. Just drop a document or photo on the scanner, hit the copy button, and the image transmits directly to your printer.) The scanners come with an array of software that allows sophisticated editing, archiving and e-mailing of images...
...first thing I learned about being a television writer is that even though I dress badly, it is not nearly bad enough. My button-down shirts and dress shoes were just asking to be made fun of by the all-male writing staff. So unfamiliar were these people with leather soles, they kept referring to my "wood shoes...