The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.

In a rare moment of newsmaking, Barry M. Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers, issued a sharp rebuke to the president of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, who warned in January that antipiracy efforts could “smother” technological progress and said that “private conduct may be unauthorized, but that does not mean it is piracy.”

More interesting is Nobuhiro Kawanaka's ShiShosetsu, whose slow motion and warm, filmstock colors deny close-ups of a woman's breasts some of their anatomic power.

‘Hey, Bill, where′s Charles?’ ‘Napoo.’ ‘What?’ ‘Yes. He was out on a listening post and lit a cigarette. Sniper got him.’