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...gadgets continue to be rolled out, manufacturers are concerned about the balance between offering drivers features and overwhelming them. Last year BMW debuted its $68,000 745i with iDrive, a silver dial coupled with a small screen that a driver can use to do everything from saving radio presets to activating the seat warmers. The system was widely panned. Car and Driver dubbed it "a lunatic attempt to replace intuitive controls with overwrought silicon...
...rumors at the 56th cannes Film Festival were so much more entertaining than the stuff on the Grand Palais screen, they deserve their own prizes. So here are our Kick-the-Cannes Awards. Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: The Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War II, journalists speculated that big American stars and producers would boycott Cannes in solidarity with the U.S. government's cold-shouldering of France. This notion of Cannes as a family picnic, where the feudin' cousins stay home, ignores what the festival really is: a place where movies are seen and sold...
Panasonic's SV-AV30 (right, $400) combines a video recorder with a mini-camcorder, still camera and MP3 player--perfect for streamlining your gadget collection. But its memory (at most 512 megabytes) offers meager storage. The upside: it has a slightly larger screen, though it doesn't top the Archos for picture quality...
...verdict: if you can't get to a sofa, this type of gadget makes for a fine substitute. But nothing beats the big screen. Even Hitchcock doesn't survive scaling down all that well. --By Wilson Rothman
These days Burroughs is finally getting a taste of--and for--a more normal life. "This is something I've never done," he says excitedly. "I'm like a tourist in daily life, and it's riveting!" With Dry in stores and Scissors en route to the big screen, Burroughs is finishing up his next book (working title: Magical Thinking). With all this normality, is he running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started...