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...same dirty tricks, but the KGB is a better school. At least Putin speaks German, which helps in his dealings with Schröder. And he was smart enough to align himself with Washington in the fight against terrorism." Slowed by age and arthritic legs, Ustinov appears onscreen less often than the several roles a year he once averaged. But, when not at his home of 30 years in the Swiss wine-growing village of Bursins, he remains in perpetual motion. In addition to his U.N. work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects...
Schutz, for one, pantomimed small-talk with Stiles and Topher Grace (That 70’s Show), her onscreen love interest, before a tap from Kirsten Dunst sent him strolling offscreen. While Schutz’s acting was restricted to nodding and Stiles’s character whispered half-sentences, Grace entertained the two with fragmented gems such as, “…so that’s how you make bundt cake...
When Bond first introduced himself onscreen in 1962, Britain's geographic empire was breaking up, but its cultural one was burgeoning. In the prole-chic era of the Beatles and Carnaby Street, of kitchen-sink realism and blue-collar movie stars, Bond was at best a blithe anachronism--a specter from the early postwar era, when spies dressed for dinner, and class was a matter of the right accent and breeding. Politically and culturally, the impossibly suave Bond was curiously old school, even if that school was Cambridge...
...hand-held stylus, and signals sent from the computer to mechanical motors in the stylus will simulate the sensation of pressing against soft skin. Move the stylus across the fetus' face, and you will feel the contours of its nose, lips and ears.Watch the baby's form appear onscreen as you "touch" it with the stylus. What's next? 3-D sculptures that would-be parents can bring home months before their due date. INVENTOR Novint Technologies AVAILABILITY Now, $250 to $350 TO LEARN MORE www.novint.com
George Carlin, he says, "made the language his personal puppet. He took words and phrases and sliced them eight different ways." Richard Pryor, he says, was perhaps the greatest artist of all stand-ups; his stories had beautiful and elaborate structures. Seeing both Carlin and Pryor onscreen, though, you feel the anger simmering beneath their routines. Stand-ups have a quarrel with the universe, a chip on their shoulder that they turn into comedy. "Stand-up is socialized aggression," says...