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...somewhat smaller scale, but with no less attention to detail (dig those beveled corners!), "Project: Telstar" (AdHouse Books; 184 pp.; $16.95) features robot and space stories by a group of cartoonists not normally associated with science fiction. Gregory Benton creates a credible New York during the last days of Earth. Gigantic floods aren't enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space...
...took a robot to breathe life into a state dinner. In Prague, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi charmed guests with assistant envoy ASIMO, a Honda humanoid. Asimo paid tribute to Czech writer Karel Capek, who coined the term robot in his 1921 play R.U.R. The mechanical sidekick also danced and made a toast--in Czech--but revealed that he was too young to drink...
...worked with Osamu Tezuka to adapt Tezuka’s 1949 manga, a riff on Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic. This adaptation is an anime film that follows Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) and his uncle, Shunsaku Ban (Kousei Tomita), in a futuristic city in which robots do most of the work, but must live underground. Shunsaku is a detective on the trail of a fugitive who is creating a robot named Tima (Yuka Imoto), but soon Kenichi and Tima are on the run together. Since Tima is unaware of her purpose, the plot becomes complicated...
...twisting an ankle, they kick butt. In X2, Kelly Hu gets to strut her (and her stuntwomen's) stuff. "When I battle Wolverine," she says, "I'm not just sitting on the sidelines looking good. I'm out there taking action." In T3, Kristanna Loken plays a villain robot who's more than Schwarzenegger's match. Her role is nearly speechless, but her glower is eloquent. Besides, notes Loken, 23, "I don't think many women can say they got to beat up Arnold." Michelle Rodriguez, who turns 25 on July 12, is a valued member of the team...
...future world savior John Connor (Nick Stahl) is now a whiny teenager who needs help from his surly robot pal (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a school chum (Claire Danes) to escape the machinations of blond killer cyborg T-X (Kristanna Loken). The Messiah metaphors that helped make the first Terminator a superior entertainment are now just the givens: boy and girl in peril, with one protector and one implacable pursuer. At its metallic heart, T3 is another chase movie--one figure relentlessly tracking three others, mostly in cars, at high speed through implausibly underpopulated Los Angeles streets...