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...After Roger Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make the character his own. Although he delivers Bond-mots with requisite panache, Brosnan plays the part straighter and steelier than Moore did, and he's plainly more comfortable in 007's skin than Dalton was. On the beachside set in Cadiz, he slips into and out of the role, puffing a Cuban cigar all the while. Playing Bond "is bloody hard work," he says during a break...
...rhythm section was, as with any world music group worth its salt, rock steady, the bass emphasizing depth and sparseness while the percussionists hammered away in sublimely coordinated abandon. They shifted from Congolese-style soukous compound rhythms to rubadub reggae stylings and even toyed with some straighter rock beats...
Jamie (Moore) is a teen even straighter than the Britney character in Crossroads. This minister's daughter sings in the church choir, carries a Bible, buckles up for safety. She also has a spectacularly frumpy wardrobe. Of course she's mocked by the cool kids, including Landon (West), whose punishment for a stupid prank is that he must act in the school play. That's where he hooks up with Jamie. A grudging mutual respect and so much more ensue...
EXPENSIVE $100 PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS At last Adobe has scaled down its industrial-strength Photoshop software into an affordable, user-friendly package for casual shutterbugs. Elements makes your digital photos look the way you want them to: brighter, straighter, smoother and crisper. www.adobe.com...
...other signatures? One is a unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...