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ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
...moonlit night. Afterward, we walked out along the beach, and Meredith kicked off her shoes. Wading in the Pacific Ocean was so alien to our environment when we were growing up in South Dakota. I vividly remember looking at her--this beautiful young woman walking in the surf--and thinking, "This is really something special. Our lives have changed, and they will never be the same." And they certainly never have been. --As told to Laura Koss-Feder
Remember WebTV? Microsoft's accountants sure do. The software superpower spent $425 million to buy and promote a system that married the brains of the personal computer with the entertainment value of television, allowing people to surf the Internet and watch Seinfeld on the same monitor. Like a lot of doomed info-age ideas, it had its own buzzword: convergence, a concept that predicted the blurring of boundaries between smart boxes (the PC) and dumb ones (the TV). Problem was, people loved their idiot box just the way it was, idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room...
...Geoffrey Dobbs. He has restored two historic mansions in Galle: the Sun House and the Dutch House, which offer the most luxurious colonial accommodation to be found anywhere on the island. He also rents out Taprobane, a jewel of an island only a hundred meters or so off the surf at nearby Weligama (once owned by American writer Paul Bowles) that is about 30 kilometers east of Galle, and has another beach retreat an hour away at Tangalla also on the southern coast. Apart from introducing beach elephant polo, Dobbs is now planning to open a boutique yacht club because...