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...into the fear and loathing at the heart of Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon, actually, but my pick is Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic codification of the obsession with youth that dominated...
...while listening to a Sinatra greatest-hits album I had bought for a girlfriend as an ironic courtship gesture--I was young, it was the '80s--the song Strangers in the Night caught my ear. It's an admittedly queer place to start amid the glories of the Sinatra canon, a chintzy little hit from 1966 with a dopey pop-rock arrangement; the singer himself gives it the brush-off with his famous dooby-dooby-doo coda during the fade-out. But not everyone can start with What Is This Thing Called Love?, and even here Sinatra manages to invest...
Despite these advances, consumers initially greeted APS with a yawn, until Canon introduced a petite model aptly named Elph. It's the only hit yet in the parade of APS cameras. Canon discovered that many Elph buyers didn't even know, or care, that their new camera was an APS model, which is about as smooth a technology transfer as you can hope for. Elph just looks real cool, and it fits into a shirt pocket. "The design had much more impact than APS," admits Ted Ando, general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s camera division. Cameramakers have...
...answer is simply prints to put in your photo album, then a film camera is still the way to go. But for the "pictures-as-information crowd," as Shih calls it, there are plenty of willing suppliers, with new megapixel cameras available now or due shortly from Canon, Casio, Epson, Fuji, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus and others...
...There are more, so many more, but these three crown the canon. Grab one, tilt your fedora, and pay tribute ? while you can still feel good about...