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TECHNOLOGY: IM-based online dating; video-game noir...
...these movies, settle into the easy chair of modest expectations, suspend disbelief at crucial moments and fall into the vicarious nightmare of Woolrich?s fear noir...
...corpse and says, ?That?s one bastard less.? When Louis observes that ?You see evil everywhere,? she replies, ?It is everywhere.? Yet Truffaut wants Julie to be an alluring creature, so that Louis? love for her is elevated from masochistic wimpery to amour fou. Or at least amour noir. ?I know what you?re doing,? the ailing Louis tell her toward the end, ?and I don?t care. I?m not sorry I met you. I?m not sorry I killed for you. I?m not sorry that I love you.? In the book and the movie, the woman realizes...
...Swan Lake - which cast men as the swans - became a smash, transferring to the West End for a record-breaking 21-week run. Broadway followed, as did international tours and more than 25 major awards. Next came Cinderella, set in the London Blitz, and Car Man, a film noir treatment of Bizet's classic. Both had major West End runs. But the critics were not entirely impressed; many dismissed Bourne as a showman rather than a dance man, a label that has stuck. The Mail on Sunday has called him "both the best and the worst thing to have happened...
...make only one New Year's resolution, this should be it: ring in 2004 with a single-vineyard champagne. Ninety percent of all French bubbly is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir that the top brands carefully mix to ensure consistency from year to year. Single-vineyard champagnes, however, are made from just one type of grape from a single plot of land?and they're fast becoming the toast of champagne lovers everywhere. Krug Clos Du Mesnil, for instance, comes from the first pressing of Chardonnay grapes picked from a single, walled-in vineyard...