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11 July 2008 11:53 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Josh Hartnett is so terrified of technology, he spent years avoiding the purchase of a cell phone.

The 29-year-old star - who plays gadget-savvy character Tom in new film August - admits that in real life he hates technological advances.

And Hartnett insists his resistance has left him unreachable in the past.

He says, "I'm not an early technology adapter. I resisted having a cell phone for a long time."

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10 July 2008 10:27 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

It's "August" of 2001 in the New York City tech world; cue a story that staggers under the weight of its attempt to signal heavy end-of-an-era-ness.

Josh Hartnett skulks his way through this weak, wee picture as an arrogant CEO whose stock's share price has tumbled from $70 to less than a buck. The film never explains what exactly his company does, which is meant to be a surreal Bret Easton Ellis-like touch. Instead, it leaves the impression of a screenwriter who couldn't be bothered to find out what tech companies do or why they fail.

By KYLE SMITH

10 July 2008 2:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Ah, the halcyon days of 2001. The tragic death of Aaliyah shocked a nation, a boozy Ben Affleck did a stint in rehab, and a peerless mangler of the English language named George W. Bush had just started bumbling his way into the history books. Austin Chick's August takes audiences on a magic carpet ride back to that bygone age, but the era it's obsessed with began at the tail end of the previous millennium. August is a brooding, boring indie drama about the death of the culture-wide hallucination that was the dot-com bubble, and the moment when countless dot-com millionaires on paper became real-life paupers. Sporting a deeply unflattering pubic-hair mustache/tiny-goatee combo, Josh Hartnett stars as a cocky online entrepreneur whose world is collapsing as one impractical new venture after another dies an unmourned death. Hartnett is desperate to stay afloat in a toxic business environment, but his...

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3 articles from 2008