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...significant number to Johnson's head. Until then, though trailing on all the judges' scorecards, Johnson had not looked as if he was in physical danger. In fact, he trashed-talked Chavez at the end of the middle rounds. But in round 11, Chavez came out at the bell with a barrage of body shots and combination punches to the head that left Johnson propped up against the ring ropes, unable to fall while Chavez unloaded. Just 38 seconds into the round, referee Tony Weeks stopped the match. Chavez was the new champ. Johnson told fight doctors he felt fine...
...should come from perennial bad boy Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves), who wrote the film, and his protégé Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration), who directed. Set in a nameless U.S. town, the movie is framed as a letter written by a pensive idealist named Dick (Jamie Bell) to the love of his life--a handgun. Dick, who abhors violence but is fascinated by the workings and personalities of firearms, has gathered a few like-minded loners into a group of "pacifists with guns." This heavy-artillery youth club, situated in a mine shaft, has all manner...
...wettest of the Lost wannabes is NBC's Surface (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), in which a new species of giant (mostly unseen) creatures appears in the world's seas. Idealistic oceanographer Laura Daughtery (Lake Bell) bumps into a mystery beast during a deep-sea bathysphere dive. A boy (Carter Jenkins) finds a translucent egg on the beach and puts it in his aquarium, not knowing it's sea-monster caviar. And there's a government plot to hide the truth, led by a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) with a Dracula accent. (Because, of course, real Americans don't do cover...
...other offenses. Last week seven of the not-so-satirical brokerage employees were hauled away in handcuffs as part of a 19-person drug bust; it was one of the biggest undercover actions ever carried out in the Manhattan financial district. The bust's fitting code name: Operation Closing Bell...
...group of multiples: Andy Warhol's Ten Lizes (as in Taylor), four of Yves Klein's female torsos from his blue period, four Matisse bas-reliefs of prone nudes and six Marlene Dumas portraits. A Dennis Oppenheim sculpture of a man sits amid all this facing a big bronze bell, which he hits with his head every few minutes, producing a loud bong...