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...scientist in Metro City, a floating utopia of the future where robots do most of the work for humans. Tenma is devoted to his son Toby (Freddie Highmore, of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), a boy genius who's also a nice kid. When Metro City's nasty mayor Stone (Donald Sutherland) insists on activating a kind of death ray, Toby wanders into the lab and is killed. His grieving father creates a robot version of Toby - same DNA, but with cool extras like propellant flames in his shoes and machine guns in his butt. Rejected by his father, Toby...
...know, he’s a monster of a man,” sophomore Robbie Stone says. “He really generates a lot of power, unlike most people I’ve seen. He’s the most extraordinary person I know here at heart. He’s the complete package...
...think he looks at these [experiences] more from the perspective of personal dedication, and he doesn’t need the recognition from other people to motivate him,” Stone says...
LOTS ROAD Tucked between grandiose flats, a vehicle compound and a decommissioned power station, this Chelsea auction house specializes in furnishings, especially contemporary ones. You can pick up everything from barely used modern suites to outsized stone pineapples for your garden. There are monthly specialist sales - for things such as lighting, mirrors or rugs - and Russian art sales are held three times a year. The atmosphere is casual, with people coming in and out, and bidding is brisk. If you're wondering how to get that bulky purchase home, see lotsroad.com, where you'll find a list of delivery companies...
BLOOMSBURY Located a stone's throw from the big-name designer shops of New Bond Street, Bloomsbury Auctions deals in books, prints, posters, photographs, maps - anything, in fact, on paper. Sales aren't held to a fixed timetable, so see bloomsburyauctions.com for dates of forthcoming events. (An auction of ephemera and propaganda from China under Mao, including the first Hebrew edition of the Little Red Book, takes place on Nov. 5.) There's a high tweed-jacket count - book-collecting seems to be the province of silver-haired gentlemen, who bid courteously and quietly. Expect shelves crammed with leather-bound...