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Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity” started as an extremely popular British book about a thirtysomething record storeowner, Rob Gordon, who understands his love of music more than his love life before being adapted into a perhaps better loved film, set in Chicago. The movie improved upon Hornby’s dry wit, obsession with pop music, and musings on romance with the talent of John Cusack, Jack Black, and Tim Robbins, and a soundtrack ranging from indie pop to Motown soul...
Will Chase once played Mark in “Rent,” which he and the creative talent make a poor effort to emulate here: Rob is whiny and angsty and lives in Brooklyn; he might as well have AIDS. Chase’s voice and stage presence is entirely generic, but the writers render him impotent by lobbing off Rob’s most important lines. Never once does Rob utter the underlying philosophy of Hornby’s work: “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because...
Vista is safer. The Network and Sharing Center allows you to view other computers on your home network, including maybe your neighbor's laptop that has been piggybacking on your wi-fi router. Backing up files to a DVD or an external hard drive is easier. PC-industry analyst Rob Enderle says a "big chunk of viruses" won't work on the new OS. Unlike Windows XP, Vista almost always asks the user for permission to install new software, so it catches many more sinister programs before they strike. Says Enderle: "Vista is much more like the Mac OS, Linux...
...Sofia (Soon-yin Lee), half of the heterosexual pair, she feels constrained both in her marriage to Rob (Raphael Barker) and in her job. She's a sex therapist who gets no ultimate kick from sex. When James and Jamie come to her as patients, she turns the tables by confessing to them: "I'm pre-orgasmic." "Does that mean you're about to have one?" "No. It means I've never...
...sent an open letter and petition to Congress this Tuesday, urging Washington to reject the detainee bill. But despite their efforts, the bill passed in Senate yesterday to a 65-34 vote, after more than 10 hours of debate. According to the letter, the bill “would rob individuals detained by the United States of the hallmark of American freedom, the right of anyone detained by the government to demand to know why and to challenge the conditions of confinement before a federal court.” The effort, spearheaded by Smith Jr. Professor of Law Martha Minow...