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...months hasn't been easy. When school let out, "the net" was receiving widespread national attention, becoming a vibrant part of the national and even international culture. My off-line computer sat lifeless in the corner of my room as references to World Wide Web pages and news groups, chat lines and e-mail accounts popped up everywhere...
...boxes encrusted with summer dust are cracked open, new telephone numbers are hopelessly irretrievable, and welcome back parties spring up like fond memories of lost friends and acquaintances. At a recent Back Bay soiree, some illustrious members of the Harvard community and other assorted Boston elite gathered for chit-chat and bizarre revelation...
...just after a serious fight. Seven women had been abducted the day before by a neighboring group, and the local men and their guests had just that morning recovered five of them in a brutal club fight." The men were vigilantly awaiting retaliation when Chagnon popped in for a chat...
Director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) is trying to shoot a mother-daughter chat, a love scene and a dream sequence. Well, maybe they're all dream sequences: Reve? What's that French for? Or all nightmares, because everything goes hilariously wrong. The boom mike dips into the frame. The dwarf feels he's being exploited. Then there's movie star Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), an idiot hunk who unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist; imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman. The film is funny without pushing it and is acted with a deft, manic touch...
...that different from its competitors, America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe. Subscribers pay $1 to $2 an hour and get the usual special-interest forums, where they can post messages; a commercial zone, where companies as diverse as newspapers and consumer-electronics makers can show off their wares; and chat areas, where people can type at each other. My favorite bit of weirdness: the chat area, Chat World, is modeled on a hotel, with different floors, concierge (for questions, not dry cleaning), atrium, restaurant and spa. An online spa. Now that's my idea of exercise...