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It was in dusty Midland that Franks learned some of life's simplest pleasures: shooting birds and riding motorcycles, smoking cigars and drinking margaritas. After high school, he headed to the University of Texas, but he dropped out and enlisted in the Army. He began as a lowly private in...
The trilogy of films that Glover is working on isn't quite finished, but he has shown part of What Is It? in small theaters around the country, along with a slide show and presentation. Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, and the images supposedly make...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety--and decided to launch it anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what in the rocket business are called safety waivers--problems...
Most Latin American film-makers can't stand slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga...
If you've never met Arthur Dent, engaged the Improbability Drive or sipped a pan-galactic gargle blaster, stop reading now: this article may leave you as cold as a Vogon's heart. If, however, you're among the millions of fans of Douglas Adams, who died two years ago...