Word: smartest
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...Golden Age of Television (Rutgers University Press; 243 pages; $32.95) helps restore the stature of the Tennessean who made trouble in the studio and at home--he told his pregnant wife, "When the child is born, I want a divorce"--but was still one of TV's smartest, boldest pioneers...
...clunky and a tad ugly, but it may be the smartest digital camera yet. The Sony Mavica ($599; 800-342-5721) lets users transfer digital picture files on cheap floppy disks, making it vastly simpler to shuttle images between the camera and a computer. When it hits stores this summer, Mavica will boast a suite of other features: a zoom lens, a small preview and playback screen and four picture-tinting options. In a nicely anachronistic touch, the camera can sepia-tone any image at the push of a button, using 20th century technology to create an image that looks...
Action movies don't have to fail. The Fugitive, The Rock, The Long Kiss Goodnight satisfy the dramatic unities while kicking beaucoup butt. And sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy...
Popcorn. Slurp puddle. The flood of junk-culture references makes Spielberg sound like the world's smartest kid. Which he probably is and, once upon a shooting star, surely was. To see the man, look at the child--with Spielberg more than most, this is true. "What binds my films together," he says, "is the concept of loneliness and isolation and being pursued by all the forces of character and nature. That comes from who I was and how I was raised." The big mystery the mature Steven had to unravel and come to terms with is this: Whose child...
...notes for an album by the alternative-rock band Lotion and appearing as an enthusiastic booster at some of the group's concerts. If this behavior suggests someone in no mood to act his age, then so does Pynchon's new novel, which shows that he is still the smartest and, occasionally, the most exasperating kid around...