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...triggered the Turkish invasion that cut the island in two; in Nicosia, Cyprus. An advocate of unification with Greece, Sampson fought British colonials and later Turkish Cypriots before his role in the coup forced him into exile until the 1990s. DIED. DOUGLAS ADAMS, 49, British author of the cult sci-fi saga The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, California. The novel, a satirical and surreal look at the search for an answer to life and the universe (which turned out to be 42), sold more than 14 million copies worldwide...
...movie is the fourth feature by French writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous project was Alien: Resurrection. That 1997 sci-fi horror film established Jeunet in international cinema's big-time, but two years in Hollywood left him longing for the charms of Paris. Back home in Montmartre, Jeunet began planning a film that would reflect Paris in his uniquely colorful and contorted visual style and recapture the dream-like atmosphere of his 1991 black comedy Delicatessen. The intent of Amélie, Jeunet says, was to make audiences feel happy-a goal he has clearly fulfilled...
...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...months JESSICA ALBA--who plays the omni-racial, genetically perfect and tantalizingly saucy character Max Guevara on James Cameron's sci-fi dweeb spectacular Dark Angel--has danced a softshoe around rumors that she and co-star MICHAEL WEATHERLY were dating. She even resorted to the "just good friends" line. This week her publicist confirmed what those in nerddom feared all along: not only are the couple involved, they're engaged. Alba is 20. Weatherly is 32. It seems superfluous to mention that this is Alba's first marriage, but hey, it is. Weatherly, who plays wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan...
...announced its newest acquisition... the WB's "Roswell," which came not with the romance of having been spirited off by a suitor who outbid a rival in a heated moment, but by the more prosaic route of having been cancelled. It's a welcome respite for the endearing sci-fi romance and its winning cast, but it does tend to undermine UPN's argument, which is that this is the type of UPN show that inspires devotion in viewers. Just not enough to keep it on the air at another network the same size. (It is a theme...