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Sutherland's worries are a reflection of the high bar the show set last year. It chronicled "the longest day" in the life of counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland)--24 hours in which he had to foil the assassination of a presidential candidate while also trying to save his own wife and daughter from kidnappers. The show combined popcorn-movie thrills with a complicated and innovative narrative (each episode was one hour in real time). And it confounded expectations right up to the end, when Bauer, after saving his daughter and the candidate, found his pregnant wife shot to death...
...Bauer--never the Kumbaya-singing type to begin with--is in a far darker place, which is right where Sutherland, 35, wants him. Over an Atkins-y lunch at New York City's W Union Square Hotel (burger, medium rare; hold the bun), he says, "I wanted him to be very cold. I wanted him to be very hard. I wanted him to be mean...
...Bauer is a good guy who carries himself like a bad guy, and Sutherland--known for playing heavies in movies like Stand By Me and The Lost Boys--plays him cold yet fiery, like a quart of vodka from the freezer. But 24 had to reintroduce Sutherland to an audience that remembered him as an '80s teen star who a decade later was better known for having been dumped by Julia Roberts. In the late '90s he even dropped out of acting to compete on the professional rodeo circuit (he had learned roping for 1994's The Cowboy...
Olken said he was impressed by the tours of the Bauer Genome Center, Harvard BioRobotics and Gordon McKay Laboratories. There, he saw research currently being conducted on genomics, robotic heart surgery and building electronic devices whose sizes approach atomic dimensions...
...part of a Saturday night campus benefit show. Even post-performance at Uno’s the unrehearsed humor continues. Blickstead, a native of Toronto, Canada, occasions a rumble of laughter from the group when he quizzically asks the audience, “Do you guys have Eddie Bauer in the U.S.?” Silly Canadian...