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Possibly the most underrated movie of the year. A Simple Plan seems like a deadly serious version of Fargo--three men's plan to keep an unclaimed $4 million goes awry and spirals into horror. But director Sam Raimi lets the actor's performances do the talking. Bill Paxton gives the film its dramatic electricity. Billy Bob Thornton continues to amaze, this time as Paxton's socially-inept brother who finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into evils he can't even understand. A rich, devastating tale of greed...
Creators themselves of some of the best remixes ever, Coldcut allow big name remixers to revisit the songs of their classic 1997 album Let Us Play. The Moog madness of Cornelius redoing "Atomic Moog 2000" and Shut Up and Dance's version of "Every Home a Prison" kick off well, but the rest of the album fails to inspire. The remixes just don't compare to the originals. The live versions of "Atomic Moog 2000" and "Panopticon," as well as DJ Lord Fader's scratched-up version of "More Beats and Pieces" are just reminders of the fresh sounds...
...Princeton, the Nude Olympics is in danger of being phased out, as several students had to be taken to the hospital after what seems to be a hardcore version of Primal Scream. Junior Christopher R. Freeland explains further: "Basically everyone just ran in a big circle around the perimeter of the inside of this courtyard for about 45 minutes. I thought it would be weird, but it was actually kind of exhilarating. It was an adrenaline rush for a few minutes, but it got old pretty fast. Also, there was a ton of wide open sex, which is pretty cool...
Third, the committee decided to replace the paragraph of instructions that appears at the top of each survey. An abbreviated version composed in the focus groups will replace the old small-print instructions...
Next up, Linux. There's been a great hoopla around this operating system from in-depth trade magazines to clueless television news reports. Linux has been hot news because it is a low-cost, and sometimes free, version of the Unix operating system that compete with Microsoft's Windows 2000 (or should...