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...Attila, six-legged insectoidal creatures with multiple onboard computers and dozens of sensors. These robots looked cool and cost a lot but on a practical level accomplished almost nothing. "You go into robotics thinking you're going to change the world," says Angle, who looks like a younger, nerdier Quaid brother. "You're not going to change the world with a million-dollar robot." In 1990 Angle, Greiner and Brooks founded iRobot hoping to build practical, affordable robots for everyday life...
...when a bright, shining new baseball movie hits the screen, why aren’t we all drawn toward the theater on merry waves of nostalgia? Take Disney’s new (but old-sounding) The Rookie. A true story, it stars Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a teacher and former pitcher. Long sidelined by an injury, he promises the struggling high school team he coaches that if they win their championship, he will make a final bid at the pros. Why, when I read the synopsis, did I groan aloud...
Special plaudits must go to Quaid, whose titular performance lends the film much of its quiet power. In an interview, Quaid noted that his Little League experience as a boy in Texas helped draw him to the role; and in any baseball movie, the lead actors’ comfort with the game goes a long way toward helping the audience buy into their characters’ fantasies. Quaid reportedly worked hard to capture Morris’ particular mound-tics and it shows; he looks like he could be a ballplayer, even an exceptionally talented...
When the film moves off the diamond, Quaid is similarly assured. Despite his commanding leading-man presence— watch for his quick-flash smile, his upper lip a straight line across his face—the performance is humble, graceful; he never overwhelms the excellent supporting cast (Rachel Griffith as wife Lorri Morris, Brian Cox as Jim’s estranged father...
Starring Dennis Quaid, Jay Hernandez