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Doing other things occasionally forces people to miss a key episode of a favorite show that has a narrative arc. Need to know who was booted off Survivor? Doze through a part of Lost when a plot twist was revealed? That's how networks are hoping to cash in on downloads and video on demand while helping consumers catch up. "Unless you're one of the 10 million households who have devices like TiVo, the only other catch-up mechanism so far has been buying full seasons of a show on DVD," says AOL's Flannigan...
...local tribes. Kennewick Man's actual burial pit had already been washed away by the time Stafford visited the site in December 1997, but a careful survey might have turned up artifacts that could have been buried with him. And if his was part of a larger burial plot, there's now no way for archaeologists to locate any contemporaries who might have been interred close...
Internet Sites An online phenomenon, the show has spawned more than a dozen fan blogs in which viewers trade clues, post theories and argue over plot points. ABC's site features podcasts, video clips and, of course, lots of Lost merchandise...
...Vendetta is up there with the Wachowski brothers' first Matrix film, which anybody could see had more on its agenda than aerobatic martial arts. The brothers, who wrote the Vendetta script that James McTeigue spiffily directed, are back in top form--not larding political meaning on an action plot but finding a seamless blending of the two. Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should...
...Beneath his bland exterior, Paxton subtly shows the pressures of trying to be the breadwinner of a '50s-style household (that would be the 1850s) in the 21st century. And the polygamist compound where Bill grew up keeps pulling him back, Corleone fashion, from the 'burbs, driving the plot in dark, gripping directions. Stanton is perfectly cast as the pious, menacing Roman, who insists on the cut from the second store, although, legally, Roman is an investor in only the first. "There's man's law, and there's God's law," he warns, before the Hummers of his henchmen...