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...paragraph. For now, let's say that it is something of a milestone in filmmaking. Although computer-generated images, or CGI, have been around for a couple of decades, Petersen's film is traveling the highest plane of the state of the art. Using weather reports, scientific formulas and frequent flights of fancy, a team of artists at Industrial Light & Magic, the prolific special-effects house behind Terminator 2 and the Star Wars franchise, has rendered the roiling seas and crashing waves almost entirely on computers (no miniature boats were used, and the film's actors and crew spent only...
...maladies are real. He suffers from epileptic seizures, and checked into a Virginia hospital last week because of diverticulitis, an inflamed colon. Also, Coelho told a friend that an MRI had revealed a cyst on his brain, which may be the reason he has been suffering more frequent seizures. Tipper Gore and campaign manager Donna Brazille visited him last Tuesday; the next day, when Brazille called, Coelho told her, "It's not good...
Sure, being far away from home has its disadvantages. Visits home will be far less frequent than your fellow first-years who drive home every other weekend. You may find yourself going back only for summer and winter breaks, and having to make other arrangements for Thanksgiving, Spring Break and all the other gaps in the calendar. You will miss your family and your friends, and may become out of touch with the gossip back home. I recently discovered, for example, that one of my 21-year old high school friends and her boyfriend had been shopping for a wedding...
...starring Gwen Verdon; fishing for blues with doctor cronies off Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...
Bruce McCall is a writer and illustrator and frequent contributor to the New Yorker. He is working on a book about...