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...version of the same computer chip used to run the Pong video game, Galileo beamed down more than 14,000 photos during its life span, providing evidence that a vast subterranean ocean exists on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Galileo was running out of fuel and NASA worried the craft might spread microorganisms from Earth if it crashed into Europa...
Sure, the body count is astronomical, but the picture is so cheeky and ironized that you come to think of all those extras flying through the air as a kind of corps de ballet, people you know are going to dust themselves off and head for the craft service table once the camera stops turning. Meantime, Rodriguez is more than likely choreographing some brilliant variation on a standard action trope. The high point here is El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) and his bride (Salma Hayek), chained together, in a breathtaking escape down the sheer wall of a hotel. It is beautifully...
...glamorized the Hitler myth in 1935's Triumph of the Will. This record of a Nazi Party Congress rally in Nuremberg still sickens with its close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily 101 at her death, Riefenstahl outlived most of her critics but not her reputation; for 60 years, she was blackballed from the medium she helped define. Last year she completed a new movie, Underwater Impressions. It has yet to be shown at any major film festival. --By Richard Corliss
...past the government announced test launches of Shenzhou spacecraft only after they returned, saving itself the embarrassment of having to explain failures. China's satellite-launch program suffered a string of disastrous explosions and aborted launches in the mid-1990s. Although all four unmanned Shenzhou craft have returned from orbit since the first test in 1999, not all were mission-accomplished. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have suffered damage from a hard landing during a blizzard...
...winning are celebrity associations that fashion companies are using them to craft their brand images and their products. Reebok has teamed up with 50 Cent, Shakira and Diane von Furstenberg; Birkenstock with Heidi Klum; and LeSportsac with Gwen Stefani. And designers like Marc Jacobs, in the absence of seismic shifts in fashion, are siphoning some adrenaline from Hollywood by putting celebrities in their ads: Cate Blanchett for Donna Karan, Adrien Brody for Ermenegildo Zegna, Christina Aguilera for Versace...