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...Matt Ridley refers to the study of human genes and the idea of the genome as a book [SCIENCE, Feb. 28]. Well, I sincerely hope that nobody will ever be able to read the DNA book. It would be interesting to know how many people really want the human genome to be mapped. One can't be for the project and against cloning, genetic engineering for humans and all the things that are tightly linked to genetic research. Technology has always led to the best and the worst: steel gave us plows but also weapons; computers gave us the Internet...
...already begun taking meetings. So far she's talked to practically every studio, as well as Robert De Niro and director Michael Bay. Last week she met Ridley Scott, who's scouting a female lead for Hannibal now that Jodie Foster has declined to reprise her Silence of the Lambs role. "I haven't sat with [Martin] Scorsese yet," says Swank, who's angling for a part in his Gangs of New York opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, though she hears Cameron Diaz has an inside track. "That will be my truly impressive meeting...
Sixteen years ago, Ridley Scott's blockbuster commercial 1984 introduced the Apple Macintosh to the PC market. Perhaps more important, it established the Super Bowl as the unofficial high holiday of capitalism--the launch pad for baroque, high-profile ads that today generate more excitement than the game. (And why not? There's more money riding on them.) This fun, edifying, hourlong survey, narrated by Frank Gifford, hits more than 50 highlights, from Bud Bowls I and II to Dan Quayle's pitching Lays potato (without an "e") chips...
...Matt Ridley is the author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His newest book, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, is due out in February
...Crowe, of course. "I saw Wigand for two months in 1996, when he was shattered, frightened, in his darkest time," she recalls. "Yet this actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator, and Taylor Hackford has just signed him to star opposite Meg Ryan in the romantic thriller Proof of Life...