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Charlie Kaufman is having trouble getting the waiter's attention. We're at one of those Los Angeles restaurants where good-looking tan people talk earnestly over expensive salads. Kaufman, not Hollywood handsome, not tan, half eating a burger, would like more iced tea, please. But the waiter just doesn't see him. It could be his paleness. It's more likely his ability to disappear, forged from years of trying to avoid getting beaten up in high school. Or it could be that here, as elsewhere in this town, nobody really gives a toss about screenwriters...
...nation's largest telecommunications company, started selling Wi-Fi access in addition to its regular cell-phone service. The company has installed 1,000 access points in major cities and plans to put in thousands more. Competitor Hanaro Telecom has installed another 450 access points in places such as Burger King restaurants. "Koreans are used to high speed Internet in their homes and offices," says Hahn Won Sic, managing director of the fixed-mobile convergence business team at KT. "Now they want to be able to get it everywhere." It could transpire that Wi-Fi is used by only...
Greenhouse or Loker? Greenhouse in the morning and early afternoon. Loker in the afternoon and evening. Loker has the best burger in Cambridge...
...noticed all the TV ads that play off the theme of time travel these days? The good ol' days weren't really all that great--there was the cold war, Vietnam and disco, after all--but in the world of advertising, there's gold in the past. In March, Burger King celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Whopper hamburger with an advertising ode to the ages, featuring basketball behemoth Shaquille O'Neal. In the commercial, Shaq enters a Burger King in the '50s, strolls through the restaurant during the '60s, then the '70s, and leaves, meal in hand, in today...
...products that weather the times--it's the exception to the advertising rule that associates old with bad. In the post-9/11 era, that sentiment is growing stronger. "You're buying the same thing that someone bought in the '50s and '60s," says Breck Eisner, who directed the Burger King spot. "There's a certain comfort zone here...