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...says, than it would be worth--to create a fully realized, ready-for-its-close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive...
Except...Wait a minute...Could I see those orders again? That him, in this instance, is a her--Lieut. Jordan O'Neil, who is played by Demi Moore, muscles aripple, attitude aflare and buzz-cut hairdo a sight. She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I. Jane should probably be called Swabbie Jane since it is the Navy SEALS that O'Neil is trying so painfully to join. She is also traveling a few years in the future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve...
...more than happy that people are polarized," he says. "I'd much rather have somebody hate my movie than be indifferent about it." He would get his wish if he listened to TIME film critic Richard Schickel: "Other pictures that have broken out on the basis of sociological buzz, like Thelma & Louise, had appealing characters confronting interesting issues in suspenseful or comic fashion. But here all we are dealing with is sociopathic behavior that has no real-world resonance. The movie's sheer grimness militates against anyone other than a masochist volunteering to pay money...
...York the Vanity Fair piece stung the tabloids by portraying the Manhattan press corps as a bunch of cowering wusses afraid to follow up gossip that the mayor was having an affair with his communications director. The city's tabloids rose to the bait, producing three days of buzz about the state of Hizzoner's marriage and alleged philandering before it dawned on them that perhaps the reason no detailed story had appeared earlier was because there wasn't one: the principals weren't talking, and no one else was in a position to really know. The old excuse used...
...lipstick, jewelry and ? sorry guys ? dating upperclassmen. The women must also live in the same barren dorm rooms and sport the same stuffy drill uniforms as men. Despite the rigid conditions, VMI wasn't beyond a little generosity. As the women arrived on campus today, each received a stylish buzz cut on the house...