Mike Myers is sitting in the corner of a suite atop the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, sipping on a cup of English tea, wearing a black Beatles shirt. The usually gregarious Myers is soft-spoken as he talks about the inspiration for latest film, The Love Guru, which opens this Friday.
The shoe phone on TV's "Get Smart" wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used anywhere -- though it did require a dime to make a call.
Western cinema's relationship with martial arts has been a rocky one. Like many genres, kung fu has drifted in and out of fashion, but it has never regained the same popularity as its glorious heyday in the early 1970s.
Mike Myers is sitting in the corner of a suite atop the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, sipping on a cup of English tea, wearing a black Beatles shirt. The usually gregarious Myers is soft-spoken as he talks about the inspiration for latest film, The Love Guru, which opens this Friday.
The shoe phone on TV's "Get Smart" wasn't just a sneaky spy gadget, it was a technological marvel: a wireless, portable telephone that could be used anywhere -- though it did require a dime to make a call.
Western cinema's relationship with martial arts has been a rocky one. Like many genres, kung fu has drifted in and out of fashion, but it has never regained the same popularity as its glorious heyday in the early 1970s.
History is repeating itself. More than 50 years ago, Hollywood embraced big-screen formats (CinemaScope, VistaVision) and 3-D to protect the movie business from television. Now, with the box office under threat from at-home viewing, industry watchers have noted spectacular returns for features released on the large-screen IMAX circuit.
Fans of teams across the country are asking themselves just about every day of the baseball season whether or not their team has a shot at the playoffs. With a schedule that's twice as long as the other major professional sports and the Wild Card keeping more teams in contention than ever before, baseball fans are subject to day-to-day mood swings that would make Britney Spears look stable. In just a little bit more than two weeks, Mariners fans went from printing playoff tickets to drafting eulogies. Over the course of a couple of months, the Yankees went from being the worst team that money could buy -- ever -- to Wild Card leaders with a puncher's chance in the postseason.
When Dr. Evil plotted to take over the world in 1999's Austin Powers sequel, his headquarters was the Seattle Space Needle emblazoned with a Starbucks logo. As a symbol of global domination, the im...
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As if file sharing weren't nightmare enough for record, er, CD stores, now they have new competition. Tower Records, meet Eddie Bauer. And Starbucks. And Banana Republic. Seems as if every trendy r...
Britain's hottest new import just might be an American smile. Despite Austin Powers's snaggle-toothed U.S. success, his countrymen across the pond are increasingly clamoring for molar makeovers. De...
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I'm feeling watched. Like someone is following my every movement. Like electronic sensors are measuring my heart rate and body temperature, and beaming them over the Internet. Hey, maybe it's becau...
When it comes to portable DVD players, Sony's DVP-FX1 is literally out of this world. In February a pair of the Sony players, along with a library of donated DVD movies and audio CDs, were rocketed...
Microsoft's CEO has faced down more villains than Austin Powers. That antitrust suit? Looks as if it might go Gates' way after all. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison? His wealth disappeared faster than an e...
Sure, Lassie was nice. But pet owners today are more exacting. To get a hairless Sphynx cat like Austin Powers's Mr. Bigglesworth, prepare to pay Mew Attitudes Cattery in Ozark, Ala., $3,000. For a...
Cheap air travel. Mobile phones. The Internet. These advances were supposed to mean the end of geography. But while technology has radically transformed notions of time and distance, the three fund...
On a recent Saturday night, I punched in the code to enter the offices of a friend's startup in San Francisco. It was dark, so I stumbled through the maze of cubicles toward a bright light across t...
Dr. Evil makes his headquarters a giant Starbucks? Adam Sandler disses Hooters? We all know about product placement in movies--a company pays for flattering shots of its product. But why would thes...
When Star Wars: The Phantom Menace opens on May 19, it will cap one of the most intensive publicity pushes for any film in history. But, in true Star Wars fashion, the end will also be the beginnin...
As politicians and economists wring their hands over the profligacy of the American consumer and the decline of his personal-saving rate, the business community has quietly stepped forward with an ...
The prospect of freezing people and later thawing them out has long factored large in the American imagination. It's a staple of science fiction novels. It's been a plot device in numerous movies, ...
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