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...besides new commercials and a modified "Intel Inside" logo, what does this new technology offer...
Papert, who invented the "LOGO" computer language and co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, said computers and the Internet provide children with new tools to obtain answers to their questions without the guidance of parents or teachers...
...noodling by Lucas and his effects mavens but the way we look at the film. Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future, or of the technologically advanced past that Lucas imagined. Today we can wallow in the film's sleek retro-kitsch; even the opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters, in the varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation...
...blunder, CompuServe will air a 30-second commercial depicting 15 seconds of black screen accompanied by repeated unsuccessful attempts by a user to log on to an unnamed online service. The ad, clearly aimed at AOL's incessant logjams, then briefly goes silent before viewers are shown CompuServe's logo and a clincher which reads, "Looking for dependable Internet access? CompuServe. Get on with it." CompuServe isn't the only provider trying to get AOL's goat, not to mention its customers. Prodigy is planning a similar AOL-taunting spot and MCI got its shot in today when a spokesman...
There are the requisite inside jokes involving butt kissing (Daffy plants a smooch on his own ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys' squad should be called the Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization would name their team the Ducks?"). Bill Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But director Joe Pytka, who also did the McDonald's TV spot that cued the film, too often stands slack-jawed before the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness...