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DIED. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR., 90, dashing star of 75 films and son of silent-screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; in New York City (see Eulogy, below...
What can fill a screen 81 ft. high? Gods and monsters. The success of Fantasia/2000 in IMAX theaters is cuing top directors like James Cameron to the notion that the format might accommodate longer stories and higher budgets. For now, documentary spectacles still splatter the big wall. The Jordan movie--a star chat interspersed with clips from his final NBA playoff drive--has an adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics. For higher highs and cooler thrills, go Cirque. The Montreal-based art circus has finally made a film that captures the joy and awe of shows...
...most hotly anticipated sequel unveiled at this year's E3 was MYST III: EXILES. Fans won't be disappointed. Myst III has the same lush, hypnotic scenery as its best-selling predecessors. The screen shots are so gorgeous, they look like Old Master paintings. Myst III is scheduled for distribution late this year...
Beyond that, multinationals and machines tell us that we're all plugged into the same global circuit, without considering very much what takes place off-screen. China and India, to cite the two giants that comprise 1 in every 3 of the world's people, have recently begun to embrace the opportunities of the global marketplace and the conveniences of e-reality (and, of course, it is often engineers of Chinese and Indian origin who have made these new wonders possible). Yet for all that connectedness on an individual level, the Chinese government remains as reluctant as ever to play...
...long as G.I.s don't drown in them. Gleaning information on the enemy's whereabouts remains challenging, which is why the Army is striving instead to track, on computers, the location of the good guys. If a unit in the valley below doesn't show up on your screen as a "friendly," you're free to attack it. And rather than spending 15 minutes using the time-consuming radio to call in fire through several layers of command, American troops will be able to send a request by secure e-mail and rain artillery down upon an enemy...