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The SALON Interview: Helen Mirren
The brainy and talented star of "Prime Suspect" and "The Madness of King George" talks with characteristic candor about the "brutality" of the Hollywood system and the "pomposity" of European filmmakers.


Plus: An interview with Terry George, the director of an upcoming film about Irish hunger strikers starring Mirren.


Mitnick's Malice, Shimomura's Chivalry. By Scott Rosenberg
Three new books about "digital wizard" Tsutomu Shimomura's manhunt for "demon hacker" Kevin Mitnick dismantle one another's myths.


Plus: An interview with "Takedown" author John Markoff


Seinfeld: Back on the Laugh Track. By Joyce Millman
Fueled by immaturity and singles-bar Darwinism, NBC's singular sitcom is out of a mini-slump and as laff-riotous as ever.


The Talking Cure. By Joan Walsh
In a misguided attempt to alleviate racial and sexual tensions, corporate America is turning the workplace into a giant therapy couch.


Maestro Marty. By James Marcus
Martin Scorsese's romance with pop music.


Springsteen's Cabernet Grapes of Wrath Tour '95. By Adam Block
Baby, the Boss was born to slum.


Work in Progress: Critical Age. By Julian Okwu.
A photographer looks at young black men who are not the usual suspects.

DEPARTMENTS

Hot Button. Getting clear on copyrights; black racism and the Harlem fire.

Newsreal. James Earl Jones' speech impediment; Eszterhas -- more money for bombs; New York's First Lady makes a weird screen debut; yikes! it's the Click Police.

Smoking Gun. By Joan Smith.
Best-selling mystery writer Richard North Patterson honed his craft by learning how to hold the interest of the toughest audiences in the world: judges and juries.

Verbivore. By Richard Lederer.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the invention of film by the Lumière brothers -- and an aptronymic quiz.


The Five-Minute Mystery is on vacation. For < href="../departments/solution.html">the solution to last issue's mystery, "Death on the Web," click here. The winner was George Hardy.

REVIEWS

Media. Bringing the Media Gods Down to Earth. By Jon Katz
Will the "public journalism" movement make the press more responsible -- or even more arrogant?


Multimedia. Surreal Journey. By Scott Rosenberg
"ScruTiny in the Great Round" brings creative ambiguity to the linear universe of CD-Roms.


SALON Picks: Al Green's "Your Heart's In Good Hands"

SNEAK PEEKS

Short reviews of the most intriguing new books, including the new John Updike novel, an Alice Walker memoir and Evan Handler's moving account -- adapted from his off-Broadway show -- of his battle with leukemia.

COLUMNS

Ill Humor. A famously increasing number of extremely boring famous people are famous because they are famous, says the infamous Ian Shoales.

COMIX

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug

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