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From the time the marble drops to the moment the cage falls, the audience is whisked through a fiendishly crafted visual space; past impossibly large buildings, into an underwater hideaway, around grotesque human caricatures, and into a surreal world that is both futuristic and strangely ancient. Shot entirely in the studio, the film sports some of the most incredible sets in recent memory. Often enhanced by computer imaging, the whole setting has an eerie pre-fabricated feel that is akin to today's high-tech electronic games. The influence of Terry Gilliam is apparent, since the style of visuals...
...inches predicted for most of the coast. TIME Daily'sspecial coverageincludes reports from the National Weather Service and TIME correspondents in RealAudio, plus a look behind the weather and select links to other Web resources.SNOWJACKED!If New Yorkers drank as one from the cup of human kindness during the surreal snowfall last weekend, now they're suffering the hangover. Case in point: as hundreds of car owners dug their vehicles from mountains of plowed-and-packed snow throughout the city's five boroughs Tuesday night, Robert DeJesus was relieved of his brand new snow blower at gunpoint. "I still...
...TAGHEUER SPORTS WATCHES A series of surreal, seamlessly edited images makes this black-and-white TV spot unforgettably stylish. The ad, free of a voiceover, interprets the mind games athletes play to muster their drive. A swimmer races against sharks, a golfer takes a swing on a course full of vases and, in the finale, an equestrian and her horse traverse the roofs of skyscrapers...
...book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above it--by an unknown artist. These pictures really move...
...belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still lives at home. Unlike almost every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned in the newspaper, laments that he ought to change his name to something that "skews a little younger," like Zeus) and with his amusingly unhinged patients (one fellow believes his feet aren...