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...masterfully array them into a coherent whole and continually experiment with his camera work, but Soderbergh also keeps in step with the film’s cheeky “why not?” spirit. Why not rob an impenetrable casino fortress? Why not detonate a bomb in downtown Vegas to wipe out all electricity? Why not have Wayne Newton, Siegfried & Roy and world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis in cameo roles as themselves...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Always Double Down on 'Eleven' | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

Wiley, Harvard’s Loeb professor of biophysics and biochemistry, was last seen after a banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis on midnight Nov. 15. His rental car was found abandoned on a bridge over the Mississippi River four hours later...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Memphis Police Got Late Start On Wiley Search | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...creator, Dean Kamen, thinks it will one day be more popular than the car. More power to everyone if that’s the case (except, presumably, the car companies, who would in fact have less power). But even if we’re all riding IT around downtown in a few years, IT really wasn’t worth all of the advance press. The mystery that surrounded IT for a year attracted wild speculation from dorky nerds and nerdy dorks alike—people who hoped and prayed that when the glorious day came, the product would justify...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By The Bell: Already Sick and Tired of IT | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

Most Americans in the service don't join up to guard downtown Minneapolis or serve in, say, the Pennsylvania theater. But they may have to change their outlook. Last week the Pentagon made it clear it wants to make a senior military officer responsible for the defense of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Security: Soldier On The Beat | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Trouble, a comedy - that's right, a comedy - about a bomb being smuggled onto an airplane. And technicians quickly worked to erase scenes of the World Trade Center towers from trailers for Spider-Man, while production of Men in Black 2, which was being shot in downtown New York, has been shut down indefinitely. Other films found unexpected audiences. Kandahar, an Iranian film about a young Afghan refugee living in Canada who returns home to try to help her troubled sister, has been playing to good houses in Italy and France, and recently opened to great publicity in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Act for Hollywood | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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