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‘The X-Files’: Exclusive Two-Part Trailer to Air Monday

From the moment I saw the banter between skeptic Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and true believer Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) I was hooked!  The X-Files took over my life like no other series had, as the mythology of government conspiracy, alien abduction, and other-worldly phenomena captured a loyal following. I’ll …

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Book Review: ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, 150th Anniversary Edition Illustrated by Salvador Dalí

It's a great pleasure to rediscover Lewis Carroll's classic in this modestly priced new Princeton University Press edition, with marvelous illustrations created by Salvador Dalí for a long out-of-print 1969 printing.

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Interdrone: Smile for the Drone – Trends in Aerial Cinematography

In Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson’s character Norma Desmond says, “Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.” Now, there is one more element to that mix: drones. And that close-up can pull back, rise up into the air, and in one continuous shot show you all of Beverly Hills as if you're looking down from heaven. Drones' potential has not been lost on Hollywood.

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Music Review: The Zombies – ‘Still Got That Hunger’

We aren't likely to see their like again. So it's nice The Zombies with us again, at least for those who are tapped in to the music scene enough to find this fine new album, which reflects on the past but is no mere exercise in nostalgia, or catch the band on the road.

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