Word: robotically
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...says Mangold. "What's happening onscreen is happening. It's not a guy hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...
Goodbye, World of Make-Believe My husband and I were somewhat disappointed to see the final issue of Weekly World News at the grocery store [Aug. 27]. No matter how exhausting the chore of grocery shopping was, we always got a chuckle from headlines like DICK CHENEY IS A ROBOT and, my all-time favorite, FORGET HELL, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HECK. It can't be easy to make up stories like that. Lisa Amber, ST. GERMAIN...
...This summer, two multiplex options, Transformers, a tale of warring alien robot races, and the Bratz movie, a yarn about a group of girls united by a shared love of fashion, are based on popular kids' toys. Movies about G.I. Joe, the American Girl dolls, the animatronic robot toy Robosapien and He-Man are in the production pipeline. For movie studios and toy manufacturers, toy movies are a no brainer - the link creates a kind of branding blitzkrieg that leaves nearly every child in the targeted demographic hit by Bratz or Transformers lust. This summer, the Transformers movie has taken...
With military recruitment a constant struggle, the U.S. Army is coming up with a new way to come up with bodies: it is going to build them. This week, the Army begins a "drive-off" to see what contractor is going to provide up to 1,000 bomb-clearing robots by year's end, with a possible follow-up order for 2,000 more. The requirement is for a remote-controlled, wireless robot that weighs 50 pounds or less "to be used for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection and identification," according to the Pentagon's solicitation...
IEDs have killed 48.5% of the 3,270 U.S. troops killed in action in Iraq. Finding - and disarming - such roadside bombs before they detonate is one way to curb such bloodshed. "You send out a robot to interrogate these things to see if it is, in fact, a roadside bomb or if it's just trash," Army Colonel John Castles of the 82nd Airborne's 2nd Brigade Combat Team said from Iraq last week. "They're a huge benefit to what we're trying...