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Despite his assertions, Wilson in person seems as laconic and unassuming as he does onscreen. His slow, muted Southern drawl (he grew up in Dallas) lends him an air of sincerity. So while action heroes and bad guys might be a stretch, he has established a comfortable niche as the male ingenue: a solid, supportive guy, unfazed by high-octane women in higher heels. At 31, he's just handsome enough to be believable as a love interest but not so pretty that he outshines his co-stars. (Indeed, those co-stars are not always immune to his winsome charms...
...walk around in it." Tolerance ripening into empathy: that was Peck's gift in playing an elevated species of American, the man of strength and compassion. Today that species is more than endangered; it has nearly vanished. But it flourished for most of the actor's half-century onscreen, when Americans prided themselves on their fellow feeling for the downtrodden and their ability to uplift the races. Peck was liberal when liberal was cool...
...Silverman, who conceived the show, argues that "restaurants are the new theater." The Restaurant is also the new advertising: it will have product placements worked in even more snugly than Survivor does. DiSpirito runs errands in a Mitsubishi, and only American Express cards and Coors beer will make it onscreen. (Network commercial rules still apply, so there are no hard-liquor placements.) Thanks to these sponsorships, the show costs NBC almost nothing. As for the customers, Silverman notes with satisfaction, "Not only are they willing to share these primal life moments with us, they're paying for the meal...
...Sharp DV-RW2U It's hard to justify the $800 list price on this bulky recorder. I liked the Exact Rec feature, which automatically adjusts the recording quality to make sure a new show will fit onto a partially used disc. And the digital-video input and rudimentary onscreen-editing features are handy. But since the RW2U supports only the DVD-RW (rewritable) and DVDR formats, it lacks some of the advanced playback features on the Panasonic DMRs. On the other hand, since the RW format is more popular than the RAM format, the discs tend to be cheaper (about...
...Philips DVDR75 A confusing manual and cryptic onscreen menus made setting up and learning to use this device a bear. Once you get past those hurdles, the R75, which records onto DVD+RWs (rewritable) and DVD+R (single recording only) discs, works just fine. I especially liked the thumbnail previews of recorded shows, as opposed to the plain-text listings on other models. Still, the original $699 list price seemed about $100 too steep, which may be why Philips recently lowered...