Word: postmortem
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Would Dick be pleased with these films? In 1980 he told an interviewer, "You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood." And for all the postmortem respect accorded Dick's work, no movie yet has been both fully faithful to his ideas and successful on its own terms. The two best--Blade Runner, with its "more human than human" androids, and Minority Report--use Dick as a launching pad for their own propulsive flights of fantasy...
...example, Dr. Margaret Bauman, a pediatric neurologist at Harvard Medical School, has examined postmortem tissue from the brains of nearly 30 autistic individuals who died between the ages of 5 and 74. Among other things, she has found striking abnormalities in the limbic system, an area that includes the amygdala (the brain's primitive emotional center) and the hippocampus (a seahorse-shaped structure critical to memory). The cells in the limbic system of autistic individuals, Bauman's work shows, are atypically small and tightly packed together, compared with the cells in the limbic system of their normal counterparts. They look...
...bountiful fall offering, David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., the Coen film serves up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. It's a smart essay on the overwhelming human need to love someone who's bad news. Thornton's fabulously dour performance--a prime display of postmortem acting--reminds us that fall is the time when things...
...trend holds for three giants who have died in the past six weeks. Music Club has released John Lee Hooker...Is Hip: His Greatest Hits by the legendary Mississippi blues guitarist. Country guitar god Chet Atkins' new release, A Master and His Music, is on the BMG/RCA label. No postmortem releases by trumpeter and Latin-jazz innovator Chico O'Farrill have been announced, but his greatest stuff is on Cuban Blues: Chico O'Farrill Sessions, a 1996 two-disc release from Universal/Verve...
...Angeles Zoo (a visit she'd arranged with the help of her nanny's husband, a lion tamer). But she is a bit miffed that the zoo underestimated the lizard, and that it later made hay of her husband PHIL BRONSTEIN's misfortune. She aired her complaints in a postmortem on the incident with TIME's Jess Cagle. "The zookeeper said, 'Would you like to go in the cage? It's very mild mannered. Kids pet him,'" Stone says. "So Phil gets in the cage, and I took a picture. The zookeeper said, 'Come around...