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...sprawling show that opened this month at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, "1900: Art at the Crossroads," is sure to be a hit with the public. It was a smash in London. Organized by art historian Robert Rosenblum and consisting of 240 paintings and sculptures, it takes an ecumenical and almost judgment-free view of its task, which is to show what kinds of art were being made at the last turn of the century, when the idea of modernism in culture was just forming, and when some of the most admired artists bore names you'd hardly...
...turns its viewers into gods. "You watch people's most intimate moments," says New York University media-ecology professor Mark Crispin Miller, "and relish the illusion of deciding life and death." But the characters are unpredictable. That's the danger. Fox had a smash with voyeuristic bridal contest Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? only to forswear future versions when the groom was found to have once been charged with assaulting a girlfriend. CBS's participants had rigorous psychological and physical screenings and background checks--said CBS-TV president Leslie Moonves after Fox's debacle: "I want grade-school...
...After failing to turn Eyes Wide Shut into an art-house blockbuster, Tom Cruise has returned to safer ground, teaming with much-worshipped action director John Woo for a high-octane sequel to his 1996 smash Mission: Impossible. Although it might seem as if Cruise is abandoning his lofty artistic ambitions in favor of instant box office, he actually continues his admirable tradition of seeking out the industry's top directors. Woo is an absolute master at bringing a graceful touch to epic action sequences, and much of his Hong Kong work, such as The Killer and Bullet...
...special effects, look extremely promising, though there has been some Internet outrage from traditionalists who prefer the blue-and-yellow uniforms of the comic book over the Matrix-esque black leather used in the film. Nevertheless, there is every indication that X-Men will be one of the smash-hits of the summer...
That is why, inside a secret factory in Tucson, Ariz., U.S. scientists are crafting 55-in.-long, 120-lb. missile killers. These "exo-atmospheric kill vehicles" are designed to smash invading weapons 140 miles above the earth's surface, long before they can reach a U.S. city and kill thousands, if not millions. At the Pentagon, military officers are drafting plans for sky-scouring radars designed to stand perpetual guard against just such an attack. At the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, military surveyors assess sites at which construction of the most critical of those radars...