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...This life-size reconstruction, at Paris' Pompidou Center, of one of cinema's most memorable scenes is evidence that Alfred Hitchcock's art has made it into the Western canon. Part Planet Hollywood-style memorabilia collection, part film archive and very much a study of the master of suspense's influences and inspirations, "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences" is the museum's first attempt to establish a filmmaker's oeuvre within the context of the other arts. The show is on until Sept. 24. Influential paintings, sculptures, novels, storyboards, stills, film clips and photographs play off each other to reveal...
When he first postulated the World Wide Web two decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee dreamed that "all the bits of information in every computer ... on the planet would be available to me and to anyone else. There would be a single, global information space." In theory, his dream has come true. Anybody with an Internet connection can access the vast treasure of information available on the Web. In practice, though, many of those riches remain hidden from view. The Web universe is simply too big and too strange a place for simple search engines to navigate and make sense...
...little mixed. I mean, it's one thing for Justin to beat me at any reference to contemporary music, movies, literature, or general day-to-day hipness. He does that all the time. Justin is a beginning writer and filmmaker. As for me, there is no one on the planet less hip. I am your father's Oldsmobile. I am, in fact, your great grandfather's Studebaker, a crock from the Pleistocene. I am embarrassingly out of it. In fact, I always have been. When I read PEOPLE magazine, I do not recognize one celebrity name...
...because it was rare: a Disney epic every few years and not much else. Now Hollywood shovels out half a dozen animated features a year, from the studios of Disney and Pixar, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon. Still others that don't look animated are: great chunks of them, anyway (Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes). We won't even mention--it's too, too depressing--the great ruck of live-action movies, starring your son's favorite buffoons, the Schneiders and Sandlers and Greens. These slob comedies play like long, stupider versions of Itchy & Scratchy...
...hang around for the cookout. One possible escape route: an exodus to Mars, which is farther from the sun and hence cooler. But it would take a lot of engineering to turn Mars' frozen, Gobi-like surface into a livable habitat. (Among proposals that have been floated: heating the planet with artificial greenhouse gases, deploying huge orbiting mirrors to catch sunlight and sprinkling heat-absorbing soot on the Martian icecaps.) Eventually, says Mars promoter Robert Zubrin, visitors wouldn't need spacesuits anymore...