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...Picture Arts and Sciences. All the technical achievement in the world can't make up for a horrendously bad script. If Lucas wants to save the movies, he had better hire some of the writers who helped him turn the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films into the smart, action-packed and interestingly plotted films that we all love. Georgia Manry Portland, Oregon, U.S. Those who prefer film over digital images should awaken from their chemically induced haze! Digital is faster, cleaner, more versatile and incredibly fun to work with. In the hands of a true cinematographer, digital moviemaking...
DeSalvo, on the other hand, was a nightmare straight out of Thomas Harris. Born into a violent home in a rough neighborhood, he was a perfect storm of another kind--handsome enough to talk his way into women's homes, sick enough to rape and kill, smart enough to cover his tracks afterward. "All I know is that something would happen and I would have my arms around their necks," he told an investigator. (Junger makes extensive and creepily effective use of police transcripts.) DeSalvo sometimes posed his victims after the crime for shock value and left the victim...
...Advertising, based in Baton Rouge, La., has converted 75 vinyl highway boards into digital LED displays at a cost of $300,000 to $500,000 each. "Advertisers can change their messages almost instantaneously," says Sean Reilly, Lamar's president and COO. Reilly plans to put up 200 of those smart boards before the end of the year. "This is truly the next revolution in out-of-home advertising," says Larry Steiner, vice president of development for Van Wagner, which owns the sign running the Absolut campaign...
This is the fourth movie in the past month that is set in New York City and involves some sort of criminal activity, and all are smart and entertaining: 16 Blocks, also starring Willis, as an alcoholic cop trying to get a witness to safety; Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, in which Vin Diesel's mobster acts as his own defense lawyer; and Spike Lee's skillfully orchestrated story of a bank heist, Inside Man. None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity. They have grit, wit and style, plus a semblance...
STICK TO THE SITE. If you receive a response inviting you to do business outside eBay or whatever site you're using, the smart move is to decline. Even smarter: don't enter into a correspondence...