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...Thor-pee, Thor-pee" as swimming-crazy Australian fans anticipated the showdown between their country and the world's top swimming team, the U.S. "Until tonight I hadn't got the Olympic buzz, the true spirit," said Thorpe. "But it was as if the gladiators had walked into the Colosseum. When I walked out I was ready to race and race well. Hearing the crowd gave me an even bigger buzz." For his rivals, that kind of atmosphere is a source of envy. U.S. sprinter Gary Hall Jr. believes the Americans could learn something from the Australians. The host country...
...every tantrum, embarrassment and moral lapse. TV and media critics are conditioned to believe that once people start entertaining themselves by spying on others, we are just scant moments away from grandma porn and ABC's Monday Night Stoning. (You could base a drinking game on how often the Colosseum, Network and Orwell come up in discussions of VTV.) Stuart Fischoff, professor of media psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, cheerfully admits to enjoying Survivor but adds, "The downside that does concern me is the need to get more excessive and extreme. Let's try a public execution...
...resisted, but the Danish beauty brings a regal presence to the film. The boozy, exuberant Reed gave a superbly knowing performance--alas, his last. He died toward the end of shooting; one scene was accomplished with a body double and some digital legerdemain (which also added tiers to the Colosseum). Crowe, deep into his Jeffrey Wigand character in The Insider, was persuaded to discuss the lead role. Scott was impressed--and knew he could spend more money making the film look good if he spent less for a star name...
...revolution that shopping malls created in the 1970s and 1980s. They defined not only how we bought stuff but also how we spent our time. The malls themselves became essential parts of a new suburban design, where castles of consumption shaped town layouts in the same way the Colosseum shaped Rome. At its heart, cybercommerce isn't just about building businesses either. It is also, explains Yang, about building a new culture of convenience and speed...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? too is about characters being stripped of their illusions--but here they do it in a garish, Roman-Colosseum spectacle. The conceit of Albee's play--two couples spend a long, booze-soaked night exposing their secrets and lies--has been copied so often that it might seem passe by now. But Davies' production quickly brushes away any cobwebs. Diana Rigg, as Martha, the university president's daughter frustrated with her underachieving history-teacher husband, is acid, sexy and funny without turning into a camp diva spewing one-liners. She is matched snide-for-snide...