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Though Abraham hates the illusionistic flourishes of postmodernism, the Forum's thunderbolt profile can't help suggesting an Alpine fir tree or maybe the mountain slopes he knew in his youth as a champion skier. Even he compares the building to a guillotine blade--not a bad image for a building that has cut through Manhattan's architectural doldrums. For four decades, developers have crammed the skyline with featureless boxes or high-rise gimmicks like Philip Johnson's Chippendale-top Sony headquarters. Now the city faces its most important urban-design decision in years: what to put where the World...
...Blade II Soundtrack
Spiderman has a big unitard to fill. Soundtracks for movies featuring Marvel characters have been clever, innovative and satisfying to date. Blade II succeeds in continuing the tradition of matching mutant-related subject matter with a recombinant-genre soundtrack. The album delivers an impressive list of strange bedfellows: Hip-hop heavyweights including Eve, Cypress Hill and the Roots overlay samples from Fatboy Slim, Moby, Groove Armada and others. The result is bound to entice and entertain both curious and skeptical listeners...
...Blade II is not without its shortcomings—some tracks, such as the Eve and Fatboy Slim collaborative, “Cowboy,” and Cypress Hill and Roni Size’s “Child of the Wild West” suffer from painfully annoying choruses that are repeated far too many times. Mos Def’s angry nasal rantings run incongruous to the downbeat trip-hop of Massive Attack on “I Against I,” and Danny Saber and Marco Beltrami’s “Theme From Blade?...
...will direct The Hulk) and Tim Burton (who directed the first two Batmans and is penciled in for Superman) has coincided with the technological developments. "The last four years' advances have made all the difference," he says. The Britain-based special-effects house Framestore, which worked on Blade 2, says that the film required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want to use their new digital effects, and a lot of the true-life extravaganzas created for that purpose...