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...spies - hey, this is a fantasy - but mostly stumbles around in a bureaucratic fog. In Spy Kids 2, sequel to his surprise hit of last year, writer-director Robert Rodriguez imagines that a Transmooker has gone missing - that is, a gizmo just a little bigger and blinkier than a VCR remote but able to power down the whole world. The kids have to recover it before it falls into the wrong hands. But this movie's delight is in its homey details, personified by the scary creatures they encounter on their quest. These are retro-hip homages to Ray Harryhausen...
...year ago; with the holiday boost, December sales alone are expected to reach 1 million, a single-month record. ...Plop...click...whirr. The sound is more than just music to retailers' ears. In its quiet, hypnotic way, it is changing the habits of a nation. The versatile VCR can rerun yesterday's shows today and preserve today's for tomorrow. It can deliver movies old and new, the sights and sounds of Duran Duran in concert, a course in auto repair or a daily exercise regimen. With the help of a video camera, it can capture special family moments...
...Robert O. Higuera ’05 planned to take exquisite revenge on Heidi C. Brown ’05 (who laughed uproariously when he asked her if she would be attending a party he was throwing) by breaking into her room Saturday night and surreptitiously urinating in her VCR. Higuera ended up spending the next three days in jail after Brown found him naked in her common room at 6 a.m. tied to a radiator with his own pants...
...team's new arena for an NBA record price of $280 million two years ago, he was ridiculed for paying too much and trying to "buy" a championship with player perks. At the American Airlines Center, each player's locker is outfitted with a flat-screen TV, DVD player, VCR and stereo receiver. Cuban's embellishments to the arena, including a private underground court for pregame practices, added $2.5 million to construction costs. Aboard the team's 757, there is a weight room and a medical facility. Most teams have a head coach and two assistants. The Mavericks have...
...after individuals like Chaplin, it will probably be an uphill battle. According to Forrester Research, personal video recorders will be in 40% of all U.S. households by 2006. Until better encryption or industry-ordained alternatives give consumers legitimate ways to watch any show, anytime--without bothering to set the VCR--pirating and trading are bound to flourish. Even then, concedes TiVo president Morgan Gunther, "nothing is unhackable." While soap operas and sitcoms may not be getting any smarter, our ways of watching them almost certainly will...