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...latest digital sound gear. Executives, if prodded, talk about "branding," "revenue growth" and "audience fragmentation." They speak such words softly--NPR is, after all, a not-for-profit organization whose member stations constantly beg listeners for contributions. But it's getting harder to keep its success a hush-hush affair...
...frame to a rigid seating position to demonstrate his point, his eyes sparkling with a playfulness that defies his age. But he says he does look forward to flying home to Bangkok for the summer to celebrate his 70th birthday, which he says will be a small family affair...
...guitars. He played one onstage with Pink Floyd, hobnobbed with various Beatles and had Procul Harum play parties in his North London home - anything to avoid writing. "I'm a man of obsessive enthusiasms," he said. "Great bursts of energy followed by two days in bed." Amid a scandalous affair with married novelist Sally Emerson, he was twice stopped for DWK (driving while kissing). In 1991 he married Jane Belson, a level-headed British barrister, but retained one obsession: making Hitchhiker into a movie. Simpson chronicles that campaign, which culminated in the writer's 1999 move to California to keep...
...Tautou, whose titular role in Amelie spurred countless critics to rediscover the word “gamine,” turns her wide eyes and mischievous smile to service the Fatal Attraction scenario of this French thriller. The film begins from Tautou’s perspective, charting her imagined affair with a French cardiologist, before it replays the same events from the cardiologist’s more lucid viewpoint. What emerges from thismultiple-perspective tale is a study of romantic delusion that owes more to Rashomon than to the latest Sandra Bullock product. He Loves Me, He Loves...
...grinding noises that used to rouse my sleeping roommate. True, when launching Internet Explorer, I like to get up and fix myself a cup of tea while the window slowly opens. Impatient friends always choose someone else’s computer to check their e-mail. Sigh. My love affair with computers actually reached its peak circa 1990, with my Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy...