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...These aren't the '70s, when directors like Sam Peckinpah, Ken Russell and Bernardo Bertolucci had a more serious and reckless sense of cinematic adventure than filmmakers do now, when they took an X rating (as the NC-17 was called then) to insure that their visions reached the screen - and when a film existed only in the version that was shown in theaters. Today, the theatrical release is often just a teaser for the "unrated" DVD, like a hardcover book that implicitly promises a smuttier paperback. It's as if, back in the '50s, the hardcover edition of Lady...
Click on the little green erlenmeyer flask (shh don't pretend you didn't know what that was) on the top right of your screen...
Where were you on March 31st, 2008 at 5 P.M? If you are in the class of 2012 here’s to betting you were locked away in your room, sitting in front of your computer screen, trigger finger eagerly refreshing away while you scoured your g-mail account for one fateful e-mail: your admissions decision...
...credit-card debt, I put a decent slug of my salary into my 401(k), and even though I spend a ridiculous percentage of my paycheck on housing - I do live in New York City - it's just a one-room apartment. I dropped my laptop and broke the screen a year ago; it still works, so I haven't replaced it. Helpful hint No. 2: ThinkPads are only slightly less rugged than soccer balls. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...Here's Why Not Not since the Bwana Devil days has the industry made such a concerted push for 3-D as a standard movie-watching process. The big question remains: Can the format overcome its carny tincture and become as universally accepted as wide-screen has? The eternal kid in this critic thinks that'd be pretty darn cool; but the Luddite in me has his doubts. Here are three reasons for informed skepticism...