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...stitching in the plastic window across from me" and realized it was ground fire. "The chopper groped for altitude as the motors wailed in protest. A small radar screen behind the pilot's seat began pulsing with a pale green glow, converting the navigator's face into a ghoulish mask. For three or four minutes the tracers continued reaching up for us, slowly burning out as they fell short ... I thought to myself, How absurd. To be shot down...
...tremendous rookie performance from Jim Carey. No, not the pet detective, but the one in the mask (thanks, ESPN). Carey would have been propelling Wisconsin to the 1995 college hockey national championship, but decided to pass up his senior year. Carey started out playing for the Portland Pirates of the AHL, but has moved on to the Capitals, compiling a league-leading 1.85 goals-against with a 14-5-2 record. Rookie-of-the-Year award in both leagues? Maybe...
...second time in 10 days, a man in a white surgical mask terrified Japan. This time the target of the mysterious assailant was carefully picked: Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the country's 220,000-strong police force and the man in charge of investigating the deadly poison-gas attack in Tokyo's subway...
There is a place in cinema for commercialism. Big budget movies like "Batman Returns," ridiculous farces like "The Mask," and pure kitsch like "The Brady Bunch" make no pretense of being fine art. They're pure fun, and they know it. But sometimes Hollywood latches on to a story and a cast of quality and breaks their legs with a sledgehammer, one by one, in the name of "accessibility." The simplest verdict is that the screenwriter killed the film...
Moreover, the damage of such an affair can extend far beyond the people directly involved. Undoing it is "like unscrambling eggs," says Susan Mask, assistant to the president of the University of Iowa. "It creates serious problems for the faculty. It can fracture a department. The damage has to be weighed against...