October 2002 -
Game Development à la Mod - Hacker Minh Le's Counter-Strike
is the stuff of media execs' dreams -- an over-the-transom blockbuster.,
By Geoff Keighley, Business 2.0 Issue, Like a lot of college
seniors, Minh Le had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. In June
2000, on the verge of graduating with a computer science degree from
Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, the 23-year-old
Le really would admit to only one career goal: He didn't want to work in
a cubicle. If pushed about his ambitions, though, he might shyly point
to a computer game he had built in the basement of his parents' suburban
home and given away over the Internet...
October 24, 2002 -
‘Auto
Focus’: Bob Crane’s dark side - By David Elliott, SPECIAL TO
MSNBC.COM, Bob Crane, the subject of “Auto Focus,” heard that
“likability is nine-tenths” of success, and he yearns to be a new Jack
Lemmon. He is more like Gig Young without the oily sexiness — Greg
Kinnear plays Crane as a boyish nice guy who will finish last. In Paul
Schrader’s movie, Kinnear brings just enough depth to Crane that we feel
tiny spins of pathos...
October 22, 2002 -
Schwarzenegger: ‘Terminator’ to
politician? - From
the box office to the California
governor’s office, the Hollywood
star entertains the idea of a
new career. THE TODAY SHOW,
— Arnold Schwarzenegger — you
know him as movie star and
fitness czar. But what about
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger?
There’s long been talk that
Schwarzenegger wants to run for
political office, perhaps
governor or senator. Now it
seems he has taken the first
step. “Today” national
correspondent Jamie Gangel
recently sat down with the actor
to talk about his political
aspirations and a proposition he
is sponsoring this Election Day
in California...
October 10, 2002 -
Art: What's Original, Anyway?
- By Kendra Mayfield,
WiredNews, If current
copyright laws had been on the
books when jazz musicians were
borrowing riffs from other
artists in the 1930s and Looney
Tunes illustrators were creating
cartoons in the 1940s, entire
art genres such as hip-hop,
collage and Pop Art might never
have existed. The debate over
whether artists can use
copyrighted materials entered
the national spotlight this week
as the Supreme Court heard
opening arguments in Eldred v.
Ashcroft, a case in which
plaintiffs are seeking to
overturn the 1998 Copyright Term
Extension Act...
October 04,
2002 -
Justice, interrupted -
Are prosecutors going after
Winona because they failed at
getting O.J.? By Dahlia Lithwick
SLATE.COM, If Winona Ryder
hadn’t been cast in this movie,
it would have gone straight to
video. Scratch that. It would
never even have made it to
Lifetime, Television for Women.
“Doe-eyed girl shoplifts at
Saks, spends three years in
prison”? Please. There are only
two possible reasons that an
alleged Beverly Hills
shoplifting incident has
launched a felony prosecution,
complete with press conferences,
photo ops, and a spin campaign
worthy of a summer blockbuster:
Either the Los Angeles district
attorney’s office is seeking
payback for the O.J. Simpson
trial, or District Attorney
Steve Cooley is gunning for an
Oscar...
October 01,
2002 -
The Secret of Online Romance
- As online dating goes
mainstream, psychologists study
what makes cyber-romance bloom.
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE, In
“Connections,” an off-Broadway
play now running in New York,
playwright Vernon Church
provides a semi-autobiographical
chronicle of his mishaps in
online dating, including
outlandish encounters with
everyone from a sex-crazed
French magazine editor to a
twangy swinger couple from the
Tennessee backwoods...
October 03,
2002 -
Homeless men sue over
'Bumfights' - The makers
of a reality-style video are
being sued by two homeless men
who say they were paid to hurt
themselves and fight each other.
Donald Brennan and Rufus Hannah
say the creators of Bumfights: A
Cause for Concern exploited
their alcoholism to persuade
them to run headfirst into steel
doors and get the word "Bumfights"
tattooed on their hands and
foreheads...
October 10,
2002 -
Digital Radio Gets Go-Ahead
- Associated Press,
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators
gave the go-ahead Thursday for
digital radio, approving a plan
to modernize the medium with
better sound and new features
for personalized programming.
The Federal Communications
Commission voted 4-0 to adopt
digital radio technology created
by iBiquity Digital, a company
backed by large broadcasters
including ABC and Viacom...
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