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...Skulls, a recently released teeny-bopper thriller starring "Dawson's Creek" heart-throb Joshua Jackson, is supposedly based on the real Ivy League experiences of both the movie's director, Rob Cohen, and writer-producer, John Pogue. The movie delves into the world of elite "secret societies" at a generic Ivy League institution called Y University (although the shots of the unmistakably dingy streets of New Haven make the connection relatively simple, not to mention the school's blue and white colors and bulldog mascot...
...Rob is the kind of guy whose nostalgic obsessions prevent him from forming lasting relationships. As High Fidelity opens, the latest of them, Laura (a lovely newcomer named Iben Hjejle), is packing her bags. This causes Rob to start making a list of his most haunting breakups, beginning back in grade school. He and his music-store buddies are like that; they'd rather make lists (mainly about the pop past) than do something fresh with their lives...
...other words, High Fidelity, of which Cusack is also a co-writer and producer, is a comedy born of depression. Based on Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity takes the form of an intermittent monologue, at once glum and knowing, done directly to the camera. Cusack's Rob leads us in and out of various scenes from his sad past and his various current efforts to come to grips with it. This is a daring strategy: the potential for boredom is large. But Cusack is awfully good at calm desperation (or is it barely suppressed frenzy?). We await, with suspenseful...
...ROB Some 150 buyers are claiming they got ripped off by a seller on eBay. Although crooks represent just a tiny fraction of transactions, Internet fraud is rising: complaints increased 38% last year. How do you avoid it? Either pay by credit card or use an escrow service that won't release your money to the seller until you've got your goods. It costs a couple of bucks for each transaction, but it's worth it for costlier items...
When Shapiro revisited the subject three decades later, his vision of the future was essentially unchanged except that he had become increasingly worried about the potential effects of technology. Many today share similar beliefs, assuming, for example, that lives spent in front of computers will rob humans of fully functional arms and legs or proper eyesight. Or that genetic engineering will lead to such calamities as a world populated by Bill Gates clones...