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He would have done more for the film if - like Hopkins - he had done far less.

PERFECT STRANGER Not so long ago, as a prelude to the coming attractions, our nation's cineplexes began running commercials before movies.

When, exactly, did they start running commercials during movies?

I'm not referring to mere product placement, which, by now, is so prevalent that we barely notice it.

I'm referring to the de facto advertisements for Victoria's Secret, Reebok, and Heineken that routinely pop up in James Foley's Perfect Stranger.

The movie itself - a bunch of high-tech, low-I.Q.

nonsense with reporter Halle Berry trying to expose Bruce Willis as a murderer - is barely worth discussing, a thriller so labored and ludicrous that it makes Fracture look like the model of dramatic restraint.

But the incessant product-name-dropping here is beyond egregious - it literally made my jaw drop.

Willis' character works (as do all high-powered movie characters) in advertising, which leads to long, pointless conversations about the merits of the items lovingly displayed before the camera, all delivered without a shred of irony; I was astonished that the end credits didn't include, " ...

and introducing Victoria's Secret as itself." Barring some clever dialogue (I especially liked Giovanni Ribisi's appraisal o...

Prior to the operation, Pearson's vision was 20/600; her corrected vision now is now 20/15, better than “normal” vision.

Advances in lasers open eyes New procedures go beyond Lasik to give patients improved vision REGISTER STAFF WRITER April 25, 2007 Add comment AmyAnn Pearson had made up her mind.After relying on glasses and The procedure improves vision by using a laser to permanently change the shape of the cornea - the clear, front part of the eye that helps to focus light onto the retina.But when she visited Des Moines ophthalmologist Dr.

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Ejaz Husain in September, he suggested a procedure called "advanced surface ablation" instead.The technique - which, unlike Lasik, does not require a "flap" to be made in the cornea - is just one of two major developments in the field of laser vision correction, said Husain, with Associated Ophthalmologists PC in Des Moines.The other involves giving patients more customized treatments, which in some cases, physicians say, may give patients better vision than they had with glasses or contacts.Husain and other physicians are giving patients more individualized care with what's called "wavefront-guided" surgery.This giv...