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...than 2,500 screens. Moviemakers like their pictures to have "want-see" (tradespeak for marketable elements), but who doesn't want to see George Lucas' first of three prequels to the most popular trilogy ever filmed? Last November fans paid full ticket price to watch the film's 2-min. trailer, slept through the 3-hr. Meet Joe Black, then watched the trailer again. Internet rogues have mined many details from the script, invented the rest and splashed it on their websites. Every magazine but the New England Journal of Medicine has already put the movie on its cover...
...soon confirmed what Richard Smith already suspected: that someone had hijacked skyroket@aol.com's account. (The real owner, Scott Steinmetz of Lynnwood, Wash., squeezed a good 15 min. of fame out of the mix-up.) The culprit, AOL discovered, had logged on from New Jersey. A high-tech FBI-police unit there narrowed the possibilities still further. "Eventually," says deputy attorney general Christopher Bubb, "we were able to trace it back to the specific telephone that was being used." It belonged to David Smith...
...most part, though, the production relies too heavily on a stream of academics, writers and other pundits, mostly male, offering tired facts and not always enlightening insights about the past 10 decades. It is debatable whether a 12-hour examination of modern world history actually requires an entire 60 min. on Elvis. It is iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify...
...Digital8 is bigger than most digital cameras, which can weigh half as much and are half as large, as in the case of Canon's ZR Mini-DV Camcorder ($900). And while Digital8 has better resolution and color saturation than Hi8, it requires twice as much tape: a 60-min. Hi8 tape will record only 30 min. of digital video...
PAUL MACCREADY In 1977 one of MacCready's creations, the Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair powered only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew more than 7 min. Two years later, the Gossamer Albatross, an improved model, was pedaled across the English Channel. In 1981 a pilot took the sun-powered Solar Challenger 163 miles from France to a base in England. No wonder the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980 named MacCready its Engineer of the Century. In the years since, MacCready has fashioned such marvels as the wing-flapping pterodactyl that flew in the IMAX film...