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BIRDS OF A FEATHER...
...have left "N.Y.P.D. Blue." His first movie after quitting the wildly-successful, year-old television series was a remake of the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death." Nicholas Cage stole the movie from the light-weight Caruso as deftly and totally as Richard Widmark stole the original from the feather-weight Victor Mature. But having your first movie stolen by Nicholas Cage is not such a defeat. If your second movie is "Jade," however then you are in real trouble...
Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
Moran admits that it takes visiblebreakthroughs, such as his confirmation of theexistence of black holes, to keep projects likethe VLBA alive. Moran says the discovery is a"feather in the cap" of the CfA, citing the 20year delay in building the VLBA...
...highly collaborative. Robertson is listed as the writer or arranger of seven songs; the remaining 12 are credited to various members of the Red Road Ensemble. But any Robertson fan will feel his prevailing touch, sure and mystic, in the eldritch rhythms of songs like Twisted Hair, Golden Feather and It Is a Good Day to Die, which combine the intricate textures of Native American song and dance with a surreptitious modernism that has its roots in both old blues and new electronic programming...