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Ready? Let's go. In the beginning, writing is difficult. Maybe it's just me; my handwriting was the bane of my schoolteachers and has gotten progressively more illegible ever since. The thickness of the chrome-colored Chatpen doesn't help. Worse, my normal writing grip - I use my middle finger to hold up the pen - obstructs the camera. As I try out a new grip, my first scribbles are ugly scratches. Wiebe encourages me to write large, looping letters. This helps considerably. Soon, I can write comfortably at normal speed...
Nasser's quarters are spartan, cool and movie-set corporate, his desk a black African-wengewood-and-brushed-chrome counter on a raised dais in front of a bank of computers and flat-screen televisions (all on, 24/7). He keeps his Blackberry communicator and a Nokia 8100 Worldphone at his fingertips, a slim purple Sony Vaio laptop at arm's reach...
...Arbor, Mich., where he is building a modest (by billionaire standards) house to give his family a more normal existence than the legacy-ridden conclave of mansions in Grosse Pointe. His current vehicle of choice (he has a garageful, including a couple of juiced-up Mustangs): a chrome yellow Ford Escape, the company's new compact...
...there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
DIED. HENRY BROWN, 93, chemist who discovered that sulfurous organic compounds could make chrome more brilliant; in Palo Alto, Calif. His innovation produced shinier faucets, sparklier bumpers and brighter pennies...