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Pico Iyer is the author, most recently, of Abandon, a novel, and Sun After Dark, a set of travel essays
...first was that the movie seemed to inhabit a genre, the mystery, that promises a solution. Antonioni wasn't sporting. He said that real life isn't an Agatha Christie novel. Stories end; life goes on. "I can feel the weariness of certain mechanisms that are resorted to in conventional films," he told a journalist. "I think those mechanisms are false." The old formulas had become as stylized as kabuki, as stale as week-old breadsticks. Hollywood stuck to boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl, but Antonioni didn't see why he had to. How about...
...hundreds of thousands of PCs could possibly match the indexing power of first-tier search engines such as Google. The idea of this kind of distributed computing first gained notoriety with the SETI@home project, launched in late 1999. The project set out to find extraterrestrial life through a novel program that launched a screensaver when you weren't using your computer. Behind the scenes, the program was retrieving data files to analyze, returning the results to a main server. Since its inception, the SETI@Home project has accumulated over five million volunteer clients, with over one million active...
Despite its high-caliber casting and novel approach to the overused underdog premise, “Rocket Science” never really decides whether it wants to be dramatic, insightful or funny. Audiences aren’t looking for a cookie-cutter happy ending, but finding a satisfying climax really shouldn’t be rocket science...
Would you change anything about your acting career? -Grant Curtiss, ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.No. It's a bit like The Butterfly Effect, that amazing science-fiction novel, where if you go back and alter one molecule of your past, the present that you're enjoying will disintegrate...