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This dimpled, soft-spoken gent is proving again what has always been true: that American cinema is nourished by the artistry and vision of foreigners (Chaplin and Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder). Lately it has been the Asians' turn to show us how films can kick higher or probe deeper. Lee's films do both...
...Jayne Hitchcock, president of WHOA, believes that her cyberstalker found her when she got into a controversy in a writers' newsgroup. Her stalker sent sexually explicit e-mails with forged addresses purporting to be from her. One contained her home address and phone number and said she was interested in sado-sexual fantasies. At one point, Hitchcock was getting 30 phone calls a day. She was repeatedly mail-bombed--barraged with enough e-mails to shut down her computer. Her stalker also mail-bombed her husband, her literary agent and her colleagues at the University of Maryland...
...Hitchcock is lobbying states to enact specialized cyberstalking laws. So far, 33 have. In most of the cases that WHOA tracks, contacting the offender's Internet service provider is enough to make the activity stop. But more than 16% of the time, victims have to go to the police...
...pictures would make a fine set of bookends for your hardboiled fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio...
...other tools from a hardware store. That afternoon, the manager of Obara's seaside condominium in Miura called police to report a tenant who was behaving suspiciously. Even in the terse language of police reports leaked to the media, the scene that afternoon at Obara's apartment has a Hitchcock-like caste. Obara had cement mix on his hands when he greeted the police at his door. Suspicious, they asked to look around his apartment. Obara consented, but then became agitated when the police asked to look in his bathroom. When he refused to let them in, the police left...