Word: loner
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DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...Leto, shown here clutching copies of Catcher in the Rye and Double Fantasy, as Chapman did the day he shot Lennon in 1980, co-stars with Lindsay Lohan as a Lennon fan. And yes, the teen idol has packed on the poundage, George Clooney-style, to portray the deranged loner. Perhaps he has seen what a little potbelly can do for a heartthrob's career...
ESTHER DYSON, editor of technology newsletter Release 1.0 for CNET Networks: The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. In my own experience, it has drawn my family closer, as we post pictures on Flickr. It has done more than tap into something latent; it has actually created something that wasn't there with the younger family members. We couldn't do that before because we were all geographically separated...
...chord or provide a plot twist, the scene ends up only tangential to the resolution of the film. As a duo, Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth both do well with the characterizations they’re given. Firth in particular excels playing against type as a manipulative, deeply depressed loner with few redeeming characteristics. As the third main character, Alison Lohman fails to make much of an impression. At the end, the truth of the fateful evening is revealed in a “C.S.I”-style series of flashbacks and neat summation, which leaves the audience missing...
...animators working earlier this year as the shooting of Were-Rabbit raced to its close in the Aardman sound stage, a huge warren of 30 curtained sets, some that could fit on an office desk, some about the size of the model-train layout in your loner uncle's basement. Following each of the 24,000 hand-sketched storyboards that illustrate the scenes, the animator dresses the set, puts in props (tomatoes made of wax, teddy-bear fur painted green for grass), gives each character the subtlest facial makeover and takes the picture. Animators must also be actors. Often they...