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...honest, there's nothing too radical here. As Page admits, his aim was to "do everything - Aboriginal content, a bit for the conservatives, a bit for the crazies, a bit of a circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation...
...Bertolucci seems to mock Isabelle and Theo for joining in, which is problematic because that would mean he disliked the characters he worked so hard to give us without any real explanation. Although The Dreamers is adventurous in a way that few modern films are allowed to be, its content doesn’t measure up to its ambition and leaves us with disappointing thoughts of what the movie could have been...
...dating scene is contrasted, however, by the uniqueness of its recipe. The chocolate, which is brought in from Walpole, N.H., is “the only one of its kind in the country,” says Manager Julie Harrington. “It has a low sugar content, so it’s not movie theater chocolate—it’s real food.” This hearty-enough-for-a-meal delight comes in many forms, but Harrington highlights the store’s hot chocolate as the most popular offering. To create a hot chocolate...
...obvious objection here is that the copyrights for most of this content are not owned by its creators, but rather by some publishing house that clearly wants to charge royalties whenever it can. And it seems likely that the most prestigious academic journals can ask whatever they want of authors who need to be printed to be heard...
...trip without your digital camera. You've just started playing around with a digital camcorder. And already your hard disc is bursting with music, picture and video files. Digital gadgets may have become an indispensable part of our lives, but figuring out how to organize and access all that content is a growing headache. At the Demo 2004 trade show in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week, exhibitors presented several cutting-edge solutions to keep chaos...