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...former bass guitarist of the band The Lemonheads, and since having left the group, he has achieved a considerable amount of success, directing a number of music videos and commercial spots for MTV as well as a few short films. True, First Love, Last Rites is his first full-length feature, but the movie is by no means a rookie effort. Indeed, the film serves as a vehicle through which Peretz displays the most interesting ability to infuse what could very well have been a tired, rehashed premise with innovative and unique characters. The result is a well-crafted coming...
...that as it may, in the likely event that the case proceeds to trial September 8 as scheduled, you can expect to hear some of Bill Gates's views. The über-honcho had tried to limit the length of his August 12 deposition, but Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said he'd just have to hang in there for as long as it takes. Microsoft was also ordered to hand over the source code for Windows to the DOJ and the states for examination. Second set, Microsoft serving...
...length of the traditional 60-sec. TV ad has been halved a couple of times to keep up with our shortening attention spans. Now 15- and 30-sec. spots dominate, in part because they cost less. One-second ads are even cheaper to buy (Master Lock isn't saying what it paid), and cheaper to make. But can you sell anything in one second? "It's way too early to tell whether--or how--it's going to impact sales," says John Heppner, Master Lock's vice president of marketing...
...understands all. In the best of the films, Decalogue, Six (Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery)--also released as the feature-length A Short Film About Love--a young man spies through a telescope on the sexually active stunner across the way. When she learns of his rank love, she is furious; to teach him a lesson she forces upon him the banquet of her sexual favors. Contact shames him; he runs home and slashes his wrists. Visiting his home, she peers through the telescope and sees an eerie vision: herself, as the adoring boy saw her. The image overwhelms...
McKibben can sound preachy; he and his wife agonized over having a child and decided to have just one ("the light of my life"), after which he had a vasectomy, which he describes at great length. Journalist Margaret Talbot, who erupted at this in the New Republic last week, is unconvinced by "population doomsayers" and rejects a "politically correct family size." Of the author, whom she describes as a "yuppie yogi," she says, "He is irritating not only because he is so wrong, but also because he is so sanctimonious." Irritating but driven by an impulse to keep us from...