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Well, there's music in the air, but it ain't campfire songs. It's the sound of white rapper Eminem and his gay-taunting, mom-bashing, wordplay-loving new album The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope). The old take on white rappers (circa the 15-min.-long Vanilla Ice era) was that they were, for the most part, whites who wanted to be black. But the new breed of white rappers--guys like Eminem, Kid Rock and the punkish Bloodhound Gang--is proudly white, and they tell you all about it on their songs (Kid Rock's new album...
Another deftly entertaining American entry, the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", was ignored, as were some decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury...
...have to go to a theater to see these apparitions. In fact, you can't. Quantum Project, a 32-min. epic about a physicist (perpetual star-of-the-future Stephen Dorff) who defies his Merlinish dad (blustery John Cleese) to find love with the proper electron (petrochemical-sunset-haired Fay Masterson), is the first medium-length, Hollywood-style movie made uniquely for the Internet. Just log on to sightsound.com as the Web faithful did at 12:01 a.m., Friday, when Quantum popped online. Pay $3.95 to rent or $5.95 to buy. Download for four minutes--or many hours...
Technologically, too, there are problems. About 9 min. in, the lips and speech fell out of synch. Visually, Quantum is a handsome package that's hard to see. The recommended screen size is a weeny 3 in. by 6 in., creating pictures only a philatelist could love. If the screen size is doubled, things go blurry, far below VHS or DVD quality. The miasmic visuals look duped from video. They would bring shouts of "Focus!" in a crowded theater, but at your workstation, no one can hear you scream...
Though it's never too late to start, Nelson urges women to begin pumping iron at least by their 30s and 40s, because that's when bones start to thin. Lifting weights for 30 min. two to three times a week can slow or even reverse that bone loss. Don't be worried about bulging muscles; women produce too little testosterone to really bulk...