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...computer in 2001). Starting at 3,800 m, he hitched a ride up the mountain on the back of his friend, climber Takeshi Matsumoto, who wore the computerized exoskeleton built by Japanese tech firm Cyberdyne (not to be confused with the fictional Cyberdyne Systems, which created the killer robots of the Terminator movies). The suit mimics a user's motions by detecting the bioelectrical nerve signals that control muscles, and its servo-motors can nearly double a person's strength. After earning its mountaineering stripes, HAL's mission will be to assist the growing ranks of Japan's elderly...
...Today, that definition could apply to international news - and not just in our imaginations. It's the anticipation of disaster. Moviemakers want to profit from our fears as well as our desires; that's their business. But they stick to fears of a smaller, more intimate kind: the serial killer with a knife, the snakes on a plane. They're reluctant to think about the Big Fear, because that fear is too close to the headlines, and about the current Big Villains, because that means Islamic extremists. In Hollywood today, greed is the handmaiden of timidity. I envision a studio...
...chap who is polite to the point of blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
...convicted of the 1991 slaying of a Colorado teen, to killing 48 other people over a 25-year period, which if true would make him one of the most prolific murderers in U.S. history; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Browne used a variety of methods to subdue and kill--ant killer then screwdriver, ether then ice pick. He met most victims by chance--the first in 1970 while in South Korea with the U.S. Army, the others in nine states. He confessed after years of what authorities called "cryptic and poetic" letter writing and talks with retired law-enforcement officials investigating...
...would have put his money on Edgar G. Ulmer, who with such no-budget films as Bluebeard and Detour was spinning gold out of Poverty Row dross. But fate had a couple of twists in store. Ulmer never graduated to A-level movies. Mann did - after making some remarkable killer...