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...true believer. Three years' worth of 60-hr. weeks seemed about to pay off. He held 32,000 shares of Reel.com which was planning to go public. And he was whooping it up at the Sundance Film Festival. A-list stars like Kevin Spacey, Nick Nolte and Emily Watson granted interviews. "For the first time, we were really part of the film scene," recalls Thorsen. "People knew our name. They were like, 'See you next year...
...outsize ego (yes, one of the samples he is analyzing is rumored to contain his own DNA) or his penchant for doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science but, as pioneer DNA mapper James Watson sneered, tedious assembly-line labor on machines that "could be run by monkeys" (yes, most of Celera's analysis was done by robot gene sequencers and high-speed computers...
...June 1991 he had increased the number of identified genes by 347, up from 2,000. His bosses at NIH were so pleased that they rushed to patent them, only to set off a firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part is under the Department of Energy), denounced the move as "sheer lunacy" that would cause paralyzing legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with...
Within a year, TIGR had published the entire genome of Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium with nearly 2 million letters that causes meningitis and ear and respiratory infections. It was the first free-living organism to be completely sequenced. Even Watson was impressed, calling it "a great moment in science...
...this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town. But movies last forever, so Emily Watson will have to explain to her grandkids what she was doing as a dim private eye who pretzels the language ("You killed somebody dead") but solves a Chandleresque mystery. Rudolph (Afterglow) is the perp of the year's most un-sit-throughable caper. Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Nathan Lane and Will Patton are the accomplices. And you, poor viewer, are the victim...