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Four autumns ago, the TV networks presciently, weirdly, scheduled three terrorism dramas just before 9/11. This fall, just after Hurricane Katrina, the lineup includes three sci-fi series about menaces from the water. Is it conspiracy? Clairvoyance? No, just TV: blame the success of ABC's Lost, in which plane-crash survivors battle eerie phenomena and seaborne attackers on an island...
...imaginable movie genre and made at least half a dozen pictures that are among the best of their breed, including The Set-Up, a tragic boxing tale whose running time matched the time elapsed in the story; a tough-as-nails noir, Born to Kill; and the sublime sci-fi masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still. In those films, as in his other Oscar winner, West Side Story, in which his camera was a fully choreographed partner with Jerome Robbins' dancers, his impeccable and unpretentious craftsmanship became the true assertion of a modest, subtle and humane temperament. He became...
Tired of searching for "hot spots" at Starbucks to get high-speed wireless Web access on your laptop? That wi-fi era may be over, thanks to EV-DO, which stands for evolution data optimized. The new 3G technology, offered first by Verizon Wireless and now by others as well, uses a credit-card-size "antenna," which users slip easily into their PCs, allowing superfast broadband in areas covered by the phone companies. You can use it in moving vehicles, hotel rooms, even local parks and beaches. "It's a huge jump in technology," raved cybergadfly Matt Drudge earlier this...
...good idea and limp with it. The visual style will not send Steven Spielberg back to film school. But Townsend engages the viewer with a lot of cute fantasy-parodies. In a TV review show, Sneakin' in the Movies, the streetwise critics give thumbs up only to a sci-fi thriller called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins the Best Actor Oscar over Robert Redford...
...performing 5.1-megapixel camera with 3.5x optical zoom and a lot of great automatic and manual controls. (There?s also an 8-megapixel version, the CoolPix P1.) Am I saying go out and buy one? No, but stay tuned, because when the time is right, I think Wi-Fi cameras will be quite desirable...