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Know this, if you dive into "Pirate Latitudes,'' Michael Crichton's 17th-century high seas adventure: The Englishmen who plunder Spanish treasure ships here are not pirates.

PIRATE LATITUDES By Michael Crichton Harper, $27.99, 312 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.

Sometime in the near future, an amusement park offers its visitors fantasy encounters with androids programmed to satisfy all their needs until a computer malfunction turns things deadly.

It's a 7-year-old boy's dream team -- Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates.

Yesterday the news came through that John Hughes had died and it was immediately obvious what this week's top 10 would be about.

Yesterday the news came through that John Hughes had died and it was immediately obvious what this week's top 10 would be about.

One thing that Hollywood may like more than money are robots. Okay, unless they're robots that turn garbage into money then probably not as much as money, but still, close enough.

Westworld ...where robot men and women are programmed to serve you for ...Romance ...Violence ...Anything Boy, have we got a vacation for you... ...Where nothing can possibly go wrong! Delos is a state of the art amusement park in which visitors pay $1000 a day to live out their fantasies in one of three different "worlds" populated by robotic ...