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Except there will be no next year. Last week Reel.com's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., was like a ghost town. Every last one of the site's 230 employees had got a pink slip the previous week. Some, in a rush or in disgust, hadn't even cleaned out their cubicles. Thorsen and 14 others remained as independent contractors, keeping the site running while its owner, Hollywood Entertainment, based in Portland, Ore., worked out the details of how to give it a decent burial...
QUICK READS Nothing is more 21st century than being in a hurry. For the health-conscious reader in a rush, the prestigious American College of Physicians has put out a series of 14 Home Medical Guides (DK Publishing), handsome paperback books covering a number of medical topics, including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, coronary-artery disease and migraines. The books, each fewer than 100 pages, have the twin virtues of being short and crisply written. Their empowering tone will be comforting to the reader. The guides cut right to the chase, giving you just the information you need. Illustrated with colorful...
...SUNSET BOULEVARD and 3) THE GREAT GATSBY Swimming pool as watery grave. In the opening sequence of Sunset Boulevard, the police rush to a murder scene where a corpse floats. The voiceover says, "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high." Ditto Gatsby, which ends as Sunset Boulevard began, with police and photographers peering into the bloody water at a man, full of bullet holes, who had wanted a pool to impress the girl whose voice was full of money...
...Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance. Van Helden's real rush, it seems, comes when he lures dancers back onto the floor...
...Miller was his first choice, and Michaels says Miller blew him away with tidbits and insights when he auditioned for the gig two weeks ago. And after Ohlmeyer pal O. J. Simpson said that Mondays were his regular look-for-the-real-killer night, and USA Today readers' choice Rush Limbaugh kept calling the Washington Redskins the "Spend-O-Crats," Miller...