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...Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games and visual effects. Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 64-bit processors drive Letterman's computer network, the entertainment industry's largest. As a result, one digital artist can churn out visuals that used to require six or more to complete. "Now that our capacity has expanded quite a bit," says Lucas, "I think we can sort of outbid everybody." --By Laura Locke/San Francisco
...went further in the e-mail, reportedly writing that Dershowitz “has come to the point where he’s had so many people write so many of his books [that] it’s sort of like a Hallmark line for Nazis….They churn them out so fast that he has now reached a point where he doesn’t even read them...
...within the confines of the thriller, the sci-fi adventure, the western or the like. There are very few exceptions: Georges Simenon and Isaac Asimov have each written more than 300 well-received volumes, and William F. Buckley Jr. gets good reviews for spy novels that he claims to churn out in as few as 150 hours per caper...
...truth, overtly political films, like some of Zhang's work, still have no chance of being screened in China without undergoing major cuts by the censorship board. But Xu's avoidance of political fare doesn't mean she is content to churn out the clichéd boy-meets-girl comedies that are the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Her next two projects will tackle serious topics. One is a Tang-dynasty drama that she says will demonstrate that "court life is no different from street life." The other is an examination of post-9/11 America...
...week business now," says B. Donald ("Bud") Grant, president of CBS Entertainment. Some industry observers wonder whether the networks can afford to churn out new programming year round. Replies Grant: "The question is: Can we afford not to? If we can improve the viewer level, it's worth it." Brandon Tartikoff, NBC's programming chief, agrees: "I think if we get more aggressive in the summer, it's going to pay back big dividends...