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...always had such a difficult time when it comes to adapting comic books? It seems like such a simple task, yet for every gem like Blade, there seem to be six or seven duds like Judge Dredd. Which is why every time I think about Bryan Singer's big-screen version of X-Men, I get more and more amazed. Facing heavy studio pressure, an ever-shifting script, and the weight of an entire legion of diehard fanboys ready to critique everything from costumes to eye color, the Usual Suspects auteur somehow managed to make a movie that was both...
...Hamburg resident Ethel Martin, 88, shaking her head as she watched Eriksen and his assistant Mike Madonia remove the 140-lb. sow they had trapped in her backyard with the shirtful of doughnuts. "I've lived here 62 years, never seen bears this much. One ripped off a window screen trying to get in. I was hospitalized with frayed nerves the last time it happened," says the widow...
Although Crowe never earned a college degree, he did go to high school twice. At age 22, he went undercover, spending two semesters passing as a student to research his novel, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which he later adapted for the screen. Crowe has been educating himself as a filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says...
Call me a masochist. Most people have learned the hard way to treat their computers gingerly, but last week I deliberately tried to cripple mine. First, I deleted every cheap program that came pre-installed on my year-old PC, wiping out a sea of icons cluttering my screen. Then I took a dozen programs off my bookshelf and installed them one by one, praying for disaster. I hooked up a joystick. I installed a video card. When warning signs sprang up, informing me of the potential hazards of my rampage, I ignored them. Finally, I clicked on the Windows...
...iFeel mouse ($39.95, for Windows only), you can find out. Through the magic of force-feedback technology, the iFeel actually creates the illusion that you are touching icons, links and menu items by bumping and vibrating when you move the mouse to drag your cursor over them on the screen. Let your fingers do the surfing...