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...influx of estrogen. A year ago, the site Total Entertainment Network targeted hard-core gamers who played Quake and Duke Nukem online. The site was 98% male and had 30,000 subscribers. Last fall it changed its name to pogo.com and switched to more casual games like checkers, spades, bingo and euchre. Of its now 10 million users, 49% are women. The lesson: catering to women online isn't just open-minded; it's good business...
...They were supposed to issue the announcement Thursday [June 23]," said a media industry source with an active interest in the appointment. "They called up and said there had been a slight hitch and it would be Friday. And then, bingo, it didn't happen...
...Another scientist in a "sensitive" country realized his hotel phone was being bugged when he got off the phone with his wife, who happened to mention that she was going to play bingo. "A short time later in the hotel lounge, someone mentioned to the traveler the bingo trip that his wife had talked about," the report says. "The next day, another person asked, 'What is bingo...
...Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...
From costume balls to bingo, the QE2's entertainment package is pure nostalgia, often featuring performers like Tommy Steele, Des O'Connor and Fyvush Finkel, who, like much of their audience, have seen their best years but are still going strong. The ship's band plays classic Palm Court compositions from the romantic past. In the British-style pub, a sextet of middle-aged jazz musicians splendidly re-creates the New Orleans sound. Excerpts from Broadway and West End productions are scheduled to start in late May. "Where else," asks Scotsman Reg rhetorically, "can a wealthy senior citizen...