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Possible future projects include a film about the life of Hart Crane and a movie version of his Harvard thesis ("Wuthering Heights," the pop opera). Undoubtedly, his success will continue, for, in the precise, insightful words of Brandon Fraser, star of "With Honors": "Alek's adept at telling the story; he has--I mean I admire this quality in his work, which is the capacity of technically telling the story by knowing where to put the camera. That's a skill that's, that's, it's not usually learned in terms of the physical talent, whatever that...
Backbeat has an attractive cast and a passionate rock-'n'-roll score (played by some top young musicians). But with its attention to the posturings of Lennon and the untalented Stu, the movie succumbs to the post-Madonna notion that pop success is all a matter of attitude. That's so misguided. If you have any doubt, listen to the songs...
Many robberies are the work of gangs of Chinese or Vietnamese immigrants with ties to shady electronics brokers in the U.S. and Asia who purchase the stolen chips. The gangs first appeared on a small scale in 1987, when they began preying on mom- and-pop Asian distributors based in Silicon Valley. "It's been a real progression," says Santa Clara police sergeant Mark Kerby. "Now they're no longer just robbing Asians. They're robbing everybody...
Still, as pharmaceutical companies well know, many surprises can pop up on the way to developing a new drug, and other approaches to cancer therapy may win out in the end. Among the possibilities are anticancer vaccines designed to stimulate the immune system to combat tumors. Currently being tested in the U.S. and Canada is a vaccine that spurs an assault on the weirdly configured carbohydrates that protrude from tumor cells like spikes on a medieval ball and chain. At the meeting of the American Society for Cancer Research last week, Dr. David Berd of Thomas Jefferson University presented...
Self-promotion may not be the only force at work Some young leaders accuse neoconservative, pop historian Strauss of using Third Millennium to publicize his polemical twentysomething book 13thgen. The group's kick-off press conference was originally planned for early March to coincide with the opening for 13thgen but drafting the Third Millennium declaration took longer than expected. "I see Third Millennium as a big publicity stunt for his book." says McLeod...