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...first time you meet a robot can be pretty disappointing. Hollywood has taught us what to expect: a trusty sidekick like R2-D2, a gleaming robo-maid like The Jetsons' Rosey or a cyberassassin like the Terminator. The reality is very different: most robots are either mindless factory drones or blue-sky academic projects that cost a fortune, break down a lot and don't do very much. Most of them don't even have death rays...
...Name is Joe won him the 1998 best actor award at Cannes and made him a sought-after commodity. He now has the luxury of choosing his projects and turned down a part in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York to make The Magdalene Sisters. Hollywood has beckoned but Mullan still sees himself as a working-class lad from Glasgow. "It's like the 'Are you still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class until I was 37. I can't escape in that...
...Crimson is not going Hollywood. The team will, however, be expecting greater attendance at its midweek games now that all seven of them will be played at night, beginning with Connecticut (1-5) at 7 p.m. this evening...
DIED. J. LEE-THOMPSON, 88, versatile English film director of The Guns of Navarone (1961), an adventure epic that landed him in Hollywood, where he directed the suspense thriller Cape Fear (1962) and a score of films over the next 25 years; in Sooke...
Working opposite Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson was a dream job for Vietnamese actor Don Duong. Too bad it might be his last. Duong's role as a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) commander in the blockbuster war film We Were Soldiers has perturbed Vietnam's censors. Authorities may bar Duong from acting for five years for taking part in the movie, which is banned in the communist country because it paints the North Vietnamese as merciless killers. Duong is guilty of "distorting the history of Vietnam," according to Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Information Department officials, who dislike the movie...