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...Littlefield). Curiously, the one-page ad in this week's PW neglects to say when the book, which is blurbed by everyone from Sen. Edward Kennedy to Bono, is actually coming out. Also, there is no indication whether or not the proceeds are being given to charity. But diet doc Dean Ornish sure likes it: "If you buy only one book this year, this should be it." The book comes with photographs of various symptoms. Not to be read at dinner time...
...Chipsons") was skeptical. Since the first wave of VeriChip publicity, he has heard from roughly 2,500 would-be cyborgs. But the Jacobs family is particularly well suited to test VeriChip for use in medicine. If a patient with VeriChip were injured, the theory goes, a harried ER doc could quickly access the victim's medical background by scanning the chip with a device that looks like a Palm handheld computer...
...Destined to be a video-store perennial, Robert Trachtenberg?s 85-min. bio-doc, narrated by Stanley Tucci, does a nice job of Gene-splicing: inter-cutting Kelly movie clips with comments from an unusually wide range of friends and savants. The friends (wife Betsy Blair, daughter Kerry, director Stanley Donen, actress Debbie Reynolds) are neither fawning nor vengeful. The experts (biographers Clive Hirschhorn and Stephen Silverman, critics Elvis Mitchell and Jeanine Basinger) are helpful, precise and affectionate. It turns out that even Peter Wollen, the most serious film theoretician in the English language - Lacan?s brain encased in Beckett...
Focus: Post Doc at the Center for European Studies
...song; the kids, if the movies are to be believed, no longer carve themselves up into rappers, rockers and teenyboppers to the way they used to. Rather, they all appear to be a little of each. To those who grew up in the age of Michael J. Fox and Doc Martens, watching the relatively harmonious party scenes in the "American Pies" can be like walking in on Sharon and Arafat sharing a bubble bath...