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Brainpower helps nerds be cool
Psychology TodayOne day, when Erik Charles Nielsen was in seventh grade, his teacher taught a lesson on time zones. The first thing you needed to know, said the teacher, was that the International Date Line was at 180 degrees longitude. "Not exactly," said Nielsen,...Tags: Microsoft Corp., Diseases, Fiction, Biology, Video Games
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Sunday's Highlights
SERIES Nature: The documentary series premieres with a look at the white gyrfalcon and rare Arctic wolves raising young on Canada's remote Ellesmere Island. (11 a.m. KCET). In Harm's Way: Volcanologist John Seach and his team attempt to reach the summit...Tags: The Simpsons (tv program), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (tv program), Indiana Jones, Major League Baseball, MySpace
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This Couple Is Three of a Kind
STAFF WRITERIt is time to recognize that Yasmina Reza is indeed a theatrical phenomenon. Here is a French playwright, a female no less, whose talky, serious comedies are regularly translated by the heady English writer, Christopher Hampton, and have unusually healthy...Tags: Broadway, Mark Thompson, Music Theater, Neil Simon, John Turturro
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Star Trek: Nemesis
The Hartford CourantPatrick Stewart's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard leads a diplomatic mission to make peace with the Romulans, but discovers a threat to the Earth after landing on the alien planet. After years of battles, the Romulans shock the Federation by claiming they are...Tags: Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
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Summer Movie Preview
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: Robert Rodriguez, Chris Cooper, Billy Dee Williams, John Turturro, Joel Schumacher
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'The Master of Disguise'
TIMES STAFF WRITER"The Master of Disguise" sounds as if it should be a natural for Dana Carvey, who has created a gallery of hilarious characters and impersonations on "Saturday Night Live" and elsewhere. But even his protean talent can't dent this ponderously unfunny...Tags: Little Italy (Manhattan, New York), Superman, Cinema Industry, New York, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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'Star Trek: Nemesis'
Times Staff WriterWith all the recent fuss over the longevity of the James Bond franchise, the folks over at "Star Trek" must be feeling like intergalactic chopped liver. Has everyone forgotten that since starting out in 1966, the Trekkers have turned out four TV series...Tags: Gene Roddenberry, Halle Berry, Fiction, Jonathan Frakes, Movies
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Movie review, 'Star Trek: Nemesis'
"Star Trek: Nemesis" may mark the end of a chapter - the section of the longtime "Trek" movie series starring Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and other characters from "The Next Generation" - but at least it tries to go out with a big bang and a flood of sentiment....Tags: Michael Dorn, Rebellions, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Movies
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Movie review, 'The Master of Disguise'
With its big-butt jokes, repeated references to flatulence, tired Italian stereotypes and scattered celebrity cameos, Dana Carvey's "The Master of Disguise" is a disjointed film that, but for brief flashes of comedic verve, should skip theatrical...Tags: Jessica Simpson, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Adam Sandler, Dana Carvey, Movies
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Star Trek: First Contact
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 22, 1996 This is a test. This is only a test. Can anyone outside the hard-core faithful tell the "Star Trek" movies apart? One featured whales, but was it "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" or "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"? And at...Tags: Michael Dorn, Gene Roddenberry, James Cromwell, Moby, Jonathan Frakes
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Out to Sea
TIMES STAFF WRITERWednesday July 2, 1997 The "Grumpy Old Men" movies reunited Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau with box-office success, but "Out to Sea" is more like it. Much more. Here's a movie mainly about people who are considerably over 21 without a single old...Tags: Cinema Industry, Crimes, Rue McClanahan, Walter Matthau, John Davis
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Star Trek: Insurrection
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 11, 1998 No disrespect intended to the proud Son'a people but, hey, where are the Borg when you need them? It was the terrifying and thoroughly alien Borg who made the last "Star Trek" film, "First Contact," one of the best...Tags: Michael Dorn, Medical Specialization, Rebellions, F. Murray Abraham, Jonathan Frakes
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