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...Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop” is the name...
LEVITY. In some alternate universe, I’m sure that Billy Bob Thornton can go two years at a time without being cast as a killer, a psycho or a racist. In our universe, though, he is headlining the find-yourself drama Levity, playing a convicted murderer who has just been released from prison after 22 years. Back in the free world, he finds his way with the help of Holly Hunter as the sister of Thornton’s victim and Morgan Freeman as a local reverend (playing a man of God before warming up to play...
Most noticeable neurosis or idiosyncracy: Stalker/serial killer (probably...
...half of them are from Block E. On April 1, health officials gave Block E occupants a couple hours' notice before busing them to their new countryside digs. Now, they have traded their possibly virus-ridden apartments for temporary housing that might also be as conducive to spreading the killer virus. Sammy Mak, a 31-year-old clerk, spent her first morning in the holiday village disinfecting her cabin's toilet with bleach. She was told that relatives of afflicted residents would be separated from the rest of the quarantined citizens, but a neighbor whose mother contracted SARS has been...
...Less than two weeks ago, medical investigators thought they might be getting a grip on this puzzling killer. Doctors emerged from their labs to announce they had identified the likely pathogen that causes SARS: a mutation of the coronavirus that normally causes nothing more harmful than the common cold. Researchers averred that while the disease was contagious, it chiefly required close contact with an infected patient to be spread, most likely through respiratory droplets sprayed into the air by a cough or sneeze. Finally, quarantines were instituted in Singapore, Canada and, after much dithering, in Hong Kong, leading to predictions...