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...show's fans love the randomness. This season's premiere (a spoof of the sci-fi series Sliders) was almost self-parody: evil tot Stewie invents a dimension-travel device and takes talking dog Brian (the best-developed "person" on the show) to a series of parallel universes, where we see them drawn as Disney characters, Washington Post cartoons and so on. The manatees were working overtime. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
Dyson Inc.'s new bladeless electric fan resembles anything but a fan. The company calls it an "air multiplier." To the average sci-fi enthusiast, it looks like a miniature replica of a stargate - but alas, this gadget does not create a wormhole that teleports people to distant worlds. (See pictures of 50 years of the hovercraft...
...other new releases fell below even Surrogates' wan totals. Dennis Quaid flopped with Pandorum ($4.4 million), yet another sci-fi movie starring an actor in his mid-50s. Nor is the remake of Fame gonna live forever: its third-place finish of $10 million was one more underperformer. Among the holdovers, only Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself showed any staying power. The Jennifer Aniston romance ($4.3 million) was a box-office wallflower. And how lifeless is the femme horror comedy Jennifer's Body ($3.5 million)? In her host monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend...
...Canadian author has dozens of works (novels, books of poetry and even a libretto) to her name and a basket of prizes in her honor (a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2000 Booker Prize for “The Blind Assassin”). A blend of genres—pulp, sci-fi, revelation—has distinguished her writing as among the most imaginative of the last half-century.But it is above all her affection for language that makes her fiction interesting. Atwood picks at words, she turns them over, she peers at them, she reshapes them, as if searching for some...
...summer surprises. The bargain-basement sci-fi epic District 9 surged on ecstatic reviews and fanboy support past $100 million. With Inglourious Basterds - and may I never have to type that misspelled title again - Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt got people to sit through a 2½-hr. film mostly in foreign languages; it too has surpassed $100 million domestic, and is nearing that abroad. And female stars whacked their male counterparts in the season's comedies. Movies featuring Sandra Bullock (The Proposal), Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) all outgrossed films starring Will Ferrell (Land...