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Even if you don’t have Nintendo blisters, the latest Final Fantasy installment cannot fail to impress you. Final Fantasy 10 is the first one for Playstation 2, and the animation astounds. Walking on water set afire by sunset, a barefooted summoner performs the rites of an imagined planet, freeing the souls of the dead in nimbuses of colored light. Soldiers wading knee-high into battle are obliterated by a radial shockwave, leaving dashes of black dust on the ignited air. (Animation can be dark: to Japanese artists, this is a news flash from Planet Obvious.) The landscapes...
With just a small telescope, she said, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn could be seen in the western sky after sunset...
...fleeting scene in Some Like It Hot, but Billy Wilder couldn't resist giving him a line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices of dialogue in movie history. That...
DIED. BILLY WILDER, 95, sardonic, much honored Hollywood director of such films as Sunset Blvd. and Some Like It Hot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. (see page...
...scale that is the hotel's true charm. Rhapsodies about "stepping back in time" or "charming colonial style" tend to ignore that the people actually colonized may not share this nostalgia. Still, that?like most everything else?is easy to forget at the Galle Face. Whether taking tea at sunset or dining as surf crashes beyond manicured lawns, it's hard to overlook another fact: those darned imperialists had exquisite taste...