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Cruise doesn't seem to need much help of any kind these days. The man who was struggling to read 15 years ago is now regarded as having a keen eye for scripts. He is a tightly programmed individual. Not robotic--Cruise likes to laugh, and he laughs a lot...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a...
--Difficulty making friends --Difficulty reading or communicating through nonverbal social cues, such as facial expressions --No understanding that others may have thoughts or feelings different from his or her own --Obsessive focus on a narrow interest, such as reciting train schedules --Awkward motor skills --Inflexibility about routines, especially when changes...
Pageant contestants can seem almost robotic, all unmoving hair and pre-programmed speech. But they are in fact human, with feelings--and parents. The parents of the current Miss America, KATIE HARMAN, sent an eight-page letter to pageant officials earlier this month complaining that their daughter was made to...
bankrupted UFA, the enormous German film studio. The extraordinary beauty of Lang’s expressionistic city and the brilliant special effects of Eugen Schuefftan, overpower the argument that belittles Metropolis for its excessively maudlin, and at times incongruous plot. Metropolis was one of the first true science fiction movies...