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...theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure, Nicola Tesla (pioneer of alternating current among many other inventions), who is marvelously played by David Bowie. Angier wants the inventor, who's into cloning, to supply him with the ultimate trick...
...film’s few surprises is that its most memorable performance belongs to David Bowie (yes, the glam rock icon) as inventor Nikola Tesla. Unlike the protagonists in their various, ineffective disguises, Bowie is barely recognizable in his portrayal of reserved, elderly gentlemen...
...region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire city,” Tadic said of past strife, quoting Nikola Tesla, whom Tadic called “the man Serbia and Croatia celebrate together.” Tadic argued that giving independence to Kosovo—a region in Serbia that underwent ethnic cleansing under the Slobodan Miloševic regime—is not a viable idea and is detrimental...
...Google guys can be tough sells. Page, a computer geek from Michigan who as a boy idolized inventor Nikola Tesla (you know, the guy who developed AC power), has a Muppet's voice and a rocket scientist's brain. Brin, born in Russia and raised outside Washington, is no less clever but has a mischievous twinkle in his eye. When he drops little asides--"Let's make the little windows actually explode when you close them," he tells a group presenting new desktop software--no one seems certain whether to laugh or start writing the computer code. Both men often...
...novel. And here the plot gets entirely silly. Not only do spirits manage to communicate with mortals through their own private adult website, but complete absurdity ensues when the great minds are reincarnated in the bodies of the city's residents. At one point the spirit of Nicola Tesla "screws" itself into the skull of a wino "like a genie into a bottle." The spirits of Karl Marx, Ovid, Aristotle and Albert Einstein, among many many others, also descend on the city. Almost laughable, these passages only serve to add to a growing sense of dissatisfaction with where, if anywhere...