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The Sum of All Fears arrives in theaters at a time when feverish "breaking news" of troop movements at the Indian-Pakistani border and suicide bombings along the Gaza Strip interrupt our regularly scheduled programming with alarming frequency. Tom Clancy?s spy thriller, first concocted as escapist entertainment, now plays out as frighteningly possible reality. Fears, directed by [...]

Stop calling Tom Hanks the Jimmy Stewart of our times. For too long Hanks has been pigeonholed as Hollywood?s nice guy, an Everyman who every audience member would love to call friend or family - much like the rep Stewart carried with him to his dying day. While Hanks may be a decent chum to [...]

In the last few weeks, now that the war in Afghanistan has simmered down somewhat and the romance of incompetent auditing has lost its edge, stories about Napster and the fate of digital music have begun to resurface. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal ("Record Companies Should Attempt To Compete for Music Fans' Loyalty", 4.15.02) spoke of the many wonderful ways to [...]

Comics and video games can't get any respect. Despite the fact that both mediums possess their share of ravenous fans, they are still regarded in some circles as "kid stuff." While that may be true for pop-culture circa 1978, much has changed in the past couple of decades. In the last few years, the videogame [...]

Ed Humphries After a three-year hiatus between installments (and, some might argue, a nineteen-year wait for a decent film), George Lucas can relax. He can be confident in the notion that the constant stream of hate mail will finally ebb now that the world, and his faithful fans, have taken in the epic grandeur on [...]