Word: screens
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After a penalty pushed the Crimson into afirst-and-24 at the Dartmouth 46, Linden connectedwith Wilske on a 21-yard post pattern and withMenick for nine yards on a screen pass right...
...risk, no regrets, for in his new films, Sir Ian demonstrates how a lifetime of stage wizardry can be poured into a screen character. In Apt Pupil he is, in director Bryan Singer's phrase, "an old, alcoholic, sitcom-watching Nazi" hiding in California anonymity 40 years after the war and amused to perform a facsimile of his old mischief on a curious teenager (Brad Renfro). As Whale in Bill Condon's film, McKellen is sunset charm incarnate, a gay man melting inside his decaying body for the gross, cheerful fellow (Brendan Fraser) who works in the garden...
...Panasonic DVD A310 ($599), and am surprised that the picture really does look twice as good as those blurry images my half-as-expensive, suddenly depressing VCR has been grinding out. That's because VHS recorders typically display movies at about 240 lines of resolution; digital video paints the screen with 500 lines. It's one of those situations in which you don't realize how unsatisfying a thing is until you've got something better to compare it with. And by then, of course, you're ruined. DVD decks, I should note, are available for as little...
...Many digital movies are broken up into "chapters," making them easier to watch piecemeal (a plus for anyone with an infant in the house). Some DVDs allow you to change camera angles and make the picture window horizontal, like a movie theater's, or square, to fill the TV screen...
DIED. JOAN HICKSON, 92, British character actress; in Colchester, England. Hickson, whose career on the stage and screen began in 1927, won international fame in 1984 as a septuagenarian--TV's sharp-witted sleuth Miss Jane Marple, in the BBC series Mystery! Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted fan of Hickson, awarded her the Order of the British Empire...