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...Traffic is also likely to get an acting Oscar: Benicio Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor. Del Toro, who plays a conflicted Mexican cop who trails a case to California, will defeat Willem Dafoe, as a poignantly funny man-bat in Shadow of the Vampire, and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as the envious Roman aristocrat in Gladiator will get him bigger roles but not an Oscar, yet. Del Toro has three arguments in his favor. One: he's quite good in the film. Two: he's the hottie du jour, sleepily sensual and muy macho, with a touch...
...Napster's problems? Not by a long shot. There is still a major technology issue. The appeals court wanted Napster to develop a way of sorting through the music files and identifying the ones that are copyright-protected. It's in the works, says Barry. This traffic cop, he says, will most likely examine file names and check them against the titles of protected songs. The court, however, recognized the limits to Napster's ability to police its site...
...distorted definition of rich that keeps those thresholds so low. In Chicago a two-earner household in which one is a rookie cop and the other a typical schoolteacher would together earn more than $100,000 a year. There's your rich...
...Venice Film Festival thought Fireworks was art; they gave it the top prize. The movie has "art" of a sort: Kitano's own paintings, executed in a faux-naif (or maybe really naive) style, are seen throughout the movie. Fireworks also flirts with humanism. He's Nishi, a cop, and his wife has terminal cancer. (Women in Kitano films, when they appear at all, exist mainly as objects or metaphors: the hooker, the angel, the noble victim.) Nishi becomes a caregiver with a vengeance: he steals money to support his wife...
...Winners ARIEL SHARON Looks like a sure thing. Israeli Likud leader builds up a 20% lead in race to be P.M. JOHN ASHCROFT Top cop. With slim win in U.S. Senate, Mr. Controversy becomes Attorney General SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS The next soap hunk? Mexican rebel leader does TV gig and sees his popularity soar...