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...Lost," from "Alias" creator J. J. Abrams, in which a plane crash-lands on an island, leaving the survivors stranded and beset by mysterious, hostile beings who inhabit the jungle. From the clips we saw here, next time you fly, sit next to the most attractive young person on the plane - if there's a crash, it seems, he or she is going to live...
...ARRESTED. ISAMU KANEKO, 33, software developer charged with creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...
...They’re going to be a handful of people who will be spending a significant amount of their summer working on thefacebook,” Hughes said. “It’s a fairly informal affair. … [Site Creator] Mark [E. Zuckerberg ’06] and [Executive Vice President of Team Management] Dustin [A. Moskovitz ’06] and the new hires will share a place in California, do some programming, do some relaxing...
...intersection of his need for financial resources, his psychiatric expertise and creative talent produced the novel Creator, which not only sold well but garnered numerous critical accolades for its tale of a man who attempts to resurrect his dead wife via cloning, only to fall in love with the surrogate mother carrying the cloned embryo. With his course work finished, Leven decided to take a leave from Yale to work of his dissertation. But that was soon shelved for another novel, Satan, about the psychotherapy of the Devil, in which he again merged his considerable writing abilities with his experiences...
...with that, Leven shifted his focus and aimed it squarely at the entertainment world. Hollywood came calling, and at their request, he transformed his novels into screenplays. Creator became 1985’s The Big Picture, starring Peter O’Toole and Mariel Hemingway, while 2002 saw the release of the Satan adaptation, Crazy as Hell, featuring Eriq LaSalle and Michael Beach. Mr. Leven has moved from success to success as a veteran in the industry, his psychological insight lending a depth to his characterizations even as his talent manages to ground otherwise insubstantial films and allow them...