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Genius, so much fiction tells us, is the flip side of madness. In this busy, woozy thriller, a psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director...
...about how to help businesses take advantage of the Internet. Both men suddenly realized no one was monitoring copyright violations on the Net and that as a result corporations were losing millions of dollars in revenue. That led them to the concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues as to what impact Web activity is having on a corporation's business. Some Cyveillance findings: Disney and Barbie are among the Top 10 brand names most commonly...
That makes the recent films of Clint Eastwood a bracing, useful social corrective. "I don't know how to break this to you, Frank," a longtime adversary tells Eastwood in Space Cowboys, "but you're an old man." No need to tell Eastwood; he knows. As a sleuth in True Crime and In the Line of Fire, and as a career criminal in Unforgiven and Absolute Power, the actor-director has dramatized the perils and grace of something we all do (if we're lucky): age. His breath is short, his trigger finger is arthritic, and the young women...
...unique work (for reasons that can't be revealed without spoiling the fun), its very nature resists adaptation. Alas, A&E--whose mystery series has an uneven track record in capturing the tart Christie flavor--has obliterated Ackroyd's outrageous ingenuity. Though David Suchet, as always, nicely embodies sleuth Hercule Poirot, the movie will disappoint those who've read the book. Those who haven't will wonder what the fuss has always been about. Skip the movie, read the book...
...mail with reporters from the New York Times and other newspapers, and his messages appear to originate in Paris. The FBI and various Web experts have been following other electronic bread crumbs he left behind, however, and those point more strongly to Russia or Eastern Europe. An independent Net-sleuth group even claims to have located Latvian and Russian accounts Maxus uses for cash drops. "It's likely that he's in Europe, unless he's really good," says John Markoff, the Times reporter to whom Maxus sent his e-mail. "And if he's that skilled...