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After a day of trailblazing, you should doze in style. Marmot's light, chili-red Atom sleeping bag ($229; marmot.com) easily stuffed in any backpack, gives your feet extra room at the bottom...
...Varda, who said of the process: you immediately dismiss most of the films, leaving a half-dozen or so to fight over. By then a few strong personalities have emerged in the Jury's debates. In 1996, over the objections of the majority, two or three members, including director Atom Egoyan, pushed through a Jury Prize citing fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's Crash for "audacity." This year, a couple of those Type-A personalities are said to be clashing. A real tug-of-hair may be in progress. When the Jury comes on stage one by one, check for missing...
...trash on the Cote d'Azur, with two quirky North American directors offering analyses of death-love in the cult of showbiz. Today's prestige items: Gus Van Sant's Last Days, an imagining of the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, and Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's film of a murder case involving a comedy duo not unlike Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Because Van Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would not get simple tabloid tattle. We came expecting an upscale approach that...
...protégé of J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of the youngest physicists assigned to the Manhattan Project; in Cambridge, Mass. A dynamic, legendary M.I.T. professor also known as the host and writer of the inventive 1987 PBS science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green...
It was J. Robert Oppenheimer himself who chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...