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...figured that the first step was to attract a crowd. He started doing that in January 1995, when he got a friend to hang a camera out of the window of his Beverly Hills office and transmit to the Web live images of a bus-stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett on her TV show to illustrate the dubious pleasures of Web snooping. When crowds flocked to the site, Bohnett was ready. He put on his camera page links to "neighborhoods" that were really just more Web pages arranged by topic (such as sports, finance, entertainment...
...black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages, shrines to Bogart or Blade Runner, homages to Elmore Leonard or James Ellroy, comparisons of L.A. Confidential and Sunset Boulevard. Among this type of site there were only a few notable quirks. The "Noir City" chat room devotes itself to "bookselling, crime, guns, mystery, sarcasm, dames, and pez." Another, "Hard Boiled," has a direct link to "The Smoker's Homepage." A third impressively thorough noir site doubles as the homepage...
...report, then, that on his new album, Pilgrim (Reprise), Clapton sounds weaker than he has in years. It's a compromised, blues-tinged pop-rock album, with drippy melodies and cautious, manicured guitar solos. What it reminds one of is this: on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, amid the high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this...
...dull red walls of the Kremlin loom large in the center of Moscow as a reminder of this country's powerful Russian past. Yet as one walks away from the Kremlin and down Tverskaya Boulevard--Moscow's main drag--one wonders whether the Kremlin still serves its original purpose. Built as a fortress in the 1150s, it was supposed to protect Moscow from foreign invasion...
...American products. Today, the area behind the Kremlin looks quite a bit like Times Square. Sanyo and Coca-Cola signs light up the night sky. Russians chow down at a McDonald's only a few blocks from the Kremlin, while a Pizza Hut a few blocks further down Tverskaya Boulevard faces a statue of Pushkin, Russia's national poet...