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...Away.) And morose gumshoes will obsessively patrol the streets for sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot - "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950 - is another gloss on Blade Runner. The cop here is Spooner (Will Smith), investigating the death by defenestration of an inventor (James Cromwell) days before his company's new line of "automated domestic assistants" - home androids - is to be unveiled. Because he's the standard cop-hero sociopath and also because he just can't stand robots, Spooner suspects everyone. Dammit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future Is Getting Old | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...droids playing opposite WILL SMITH in this summer's I, Robot, a futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Unlike his "recluse technophobe" character, Smith is an avowed technophile. "I need the latest updates, state-of-the-art everything," he says. In the film, his detective, Del Spooner, has reason to be wary--he's pursuing a robot suspected in a homicide. Some of the robots are portrayed by actors whose expressions are then digitally replicated on the faces of computer-created characters, as was done with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. "There's a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R2-D2, With Feeling | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...every sportsman, there are certain moments when the elements of his pastime come together perfectly. The canoe breaks through the rapids. The marlin leaps. The spaniel flushes the grouse. For Duane Spooner, a North Dakota gunsmith, this ideal moment involves a rifle, a scope and a deadly long-range shot at his favorite quarry, the prairie dog. "The head goes one way," says Spooner, grinning, "the tail goes the other way, and everything in between just disappears." Spooner's son Eric, 16, shares his dad's enthusiasm. "It's relaxing," he says. "I like seeing how high they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reducing Varmints to Mist | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

BOBBY KING AND TERRY EVANS: RHYTHM, BLUES, SOUL & GROOVES (Rounder). Give these guys top marks in all those categories. This is neotraditional music done the hard way: sublimely. Some superlative backup too from guitarist Ry Cooder and keyboard player Spooner Oldham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 26, 1990 | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...article in Wednesday's Crimson quoted police officers as saying that Nicholas M. Spooner had been involved in an altercation arising from a report of vandalism in the Apley Court parking lot. Spooner said this week that he had not been involved in any vandalism and that he had not been pushing the vehicle in question. In addition, he said that he had not pushed the police officers on the scene. Spooner said he had been unavailable for comment because he was undergoing surgery for an unrelated incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARIFICATION | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

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