February 21, 2002 -
A ‘Dragonfly’ of sweet emotion - By David Elliott, SPECIAL
TO MSNBC.COM, Costner heartfelt in romance light on
supernatural... In just two weeks, two movies set largely in big
Chicago hospitals: last week “John Q.,” a hostage crisis drama kept
going by Denzel Washington, and now “Dragonfly,” which rests squarely
on the solid block of Kevin Costner. As Dr. Joe Darrow, grieving the
accidental death in South America of his saintly wife, Emily, also a
doctor, Costner gives one of his most heartfelt performances...
February 14, 2002 -
‘Hart’s War’ turns up the drama - And Willis offers up
top-notch cold stare down... Bruce Willis as Colonel William
McNamara in "Hart's War" By David Elliott, SPECIAL TO MSNBC.COM,
Bruce Willis is the star, but not really the hero or center of “Hart’s
War.” The young Colin Farrell plays Lt. Thomas Hart during the harsh
winter fighting of December 1944, soon caught by the Germans and sent
to a POW camp inside Germany...
February
04, 2002 -
Philips Burning on
Protection -
By Paul Boutin,
Wired,
Electronics
manufacturer Philips
has been fanning the
flames in the fight
over copy-protected
music CDs,
threatening to
undermine the record
industry's attempts
to tinker with disc
formats in order to
thwart music
pirates. Could
Philips take on the
major labels and
win? Yes, it could
-- but the company
may only be
hastening the death
of the 20-year-old
compact disc format.
The skirmish began
in early January
when officials for
Netherlands-based
Philips, which
licenses the compact
disc logo for both
discs and players,
went on a tirade
against the
recording industry
for shipping discs
with deliberate
errors burned into
them...
February
01, 2002 -
‘Car Talk’ running on empty - By Steven E.
Landsburg, SLATE.COM, NPR talk-show hosts’ call for ban on
cell-phone use while driving not backed up by the numbers.
Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers of NPR’s Car Talk, have
declared war on drivers with cell phones. Their weapon is
moral suasion, in the form of bumper stickers that say, “Drive
Now, Talk Later.” (The Tappets claim that NPR’s management
vetoed their first choice: “Would You Drive Better If I
Crammed That Cell Phone Up Your Keister?”)...
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