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...It’s a sex magazine that will hopefully be run by students of all sexual orientations and backgrounds,” Baldegg said.Baldegg said she expected the magazine, which will also include art and fiction articles, to garner a lot of attention...
...around. Sure, many of us were taken with the first Matrix, when Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss jabbed barbecue skewers into their heads and played video games on their postapocalypse Internet. But to a handful of brainiacs at the start-up Cyberkinetics Inc., it's not science fiction. It's a business model. Using Brown University research, scientists are studying how electrons that shoot through our neural superhighways control movement. Eventually, they hope to build devices that will enable victims of paralysis to communicate with digital gadgets--or their own limbs--via brain implants. Cyberkinetics is a concrete example...
...Dick?s stories were not filmed in his lifetime, which ended all too soon, at 53, in 1982. Since then the cult science-fiction writer has became famous, widely-read and much imitated on the big screen. Lawrence Sutin?s terrific biography paints a full-figure portrait of the demonized genius. Even if you?re not a Philaddickt, the book is a swell read. (The Dick column provoked an aggrieved e-mail, which I?ll get to later...
...star teeth flickered onto the screen, men and women in dark blazers walked solemnly down the aisles, searching for the pale glow of camcorders through their night-vision goggles. Maybe because this was Los Angeles, the moviegoers didn't seem to notice the paramilitary scene unfolding beside their military fiction...
...looms large. Biskind portrays Miramax's Brobdingnagian bully as a movie-loving maniac prone to physical violence, verbal attacks and financial shenanigans. Those sins are usually forgiven because his little studio in Manhattan's Tribeca has backed many of the best, most original flicks in recent memory, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Chicago, and he ponied up big time when MGM got cold feet about co-funding Cold Mountain...