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...years STEPHEN KING has made us afraid of things we didn't even know we should fear: vintage cars (Christine), Saint Bernards (Cujo), children who worship corn (Children of the Corn). Only now do we learn that what curdles his blood is the idea of ending up a hack. Not exactly the same as being caught after dark in a pet cemetery, but chilling enough to make King, 54, decide to stop publishing at year's end. As he revealed to the Los Angeles Times, his greatest "nightmare" is "finish[ing] up like Harold Robbins," the novelist who churned...
...Wonderful Life: What if he had never been born? Here's another question: What if that ultimate Frank Capra movie had never been made? We fear Hollywood would have been stuck for a what-if plot for its year-end inspirationals. Michael Sloane's script butters the Capra-corn with another '40s touchstone: Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, about a 4-F fellow mistaken as a war hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming...
...Berlin was waiting, hibernating. That old feeling? He surely had it No one could be older (Berlin died at 101 in 1989); and no one knew better how to set a feeling to music insinuate it in the public ear. If the musical sophisticates razzed him for writing candy corn, he public gobbled it up. If he never achieved the acceptance of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin or Richard Rodgers, well, hell, they needed someone else to write their lyrics; Berlin did it all himself. If he seemed an immigrant all-American, that's because he was: Israel Beilin, born...
...possible way to analyze this path, called the Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC), was developed by researchers observing Iowa farmers’ adoption of hybrid corn during in the 1930s. The TALC divides the population based on how enthusiastically they will embrace a new product, process or other technology and has been significantly revised by the venture capitalist and author Geoffrey Moore. Moore’s theory predicts that, if Kamen’s product does penetrate beyond technology enthusiasts, it will follow a clear path to mainstream adoption that has been similarly followed by almost every new technology...
...real action is a little way down the road, at more than 60 martial-arts training schools. Fields bristling with rows of corn give way to a landscape of young boys?often several hundred to a class?moving in eerie synchronization as they kick and punch their way toward dreams of stardom as martial masters or celluloid action heroes. Most of the more than 20,000 students will return home after a few years to humble lives as security guards or construction workers. The fortunate few will be chosen by the abbot as monks, earning the Buddhist surname "Shi." They...