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...LOVES HIS movies. Not just the more than 15,000 he's collected on videotape. His movies. Movies of him. The North Korean ruler is trailed not by the tight video crews that sometimes accompany Western leaders but by a film team straight out of 1930s back-lot Hollywood, armed with spotlights and huge reel-to-reel Panaflex cameras so loud they sound like insects feeding...
Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing...
...would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films like The Color of Money for Martin Scorsese and Sea of Love...
...solar-power company. Some are bizarre: Bronson talks to a Tibetan refugee who received a letter telling him he was the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist spiritual leader. Some are bathetic: Carl Kurlander, the screenwriter responsible for the callow 1980s hit St. Elmo's Fire, abruptly left Hollywood for his native Pittsburgh, Pa., in search of his lost artistic integrity; he didn't find it. What Should I Do with My Life? is an old question borrowed from a sacred context, but Bronson is asking it in a modern, secular age, when the voice from on high has been replaced...
MEANWHILE Hacker Victory In an embarrassment to the Hollywood studios that brought the case against him, Norwegian teenager Jon Johanssen was acquitted of digital piracy by an Oslo court. Johanssen had developed a program to crack the codes on DVDs that prevent unauthorized copying and posted it on the Internet. The court ruled that he had only used the program to view DVDs he legally owned, and there was no evidence anyone else had used it illegally...