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...virus, which emerged on May 18 and was programmed by its creator to expire and stop spreading on May 31, causes no serious damage. However, it is responsible for thousands of infectious e-mails to students that are falsely labelled as originating from “support@microsoft.com...
...There were a handful of games designers showing their wares this year who have enough creativity, empathy and sensitivity to break out of the mould. I'm thinking of people like Will Wright, creator of the Sims (and now the Sims 2) and Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black and White, The Movies). (See reviews.) There were also a couple of games which hewed to tradition, but stood out by being by far the most breathtakingly, painstakingly real: Doom III and Half Life 2. And the normally turgid genre of movie tie-ins is showing a lot of promise. Instead of following...
DIED. GEORGE WYLE, 87, creator, along with producer Sherwood Schwartz, of one of TV's most whistleable tunes, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, the theme from the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island; of leukemia; in Tarzana, Calif. He wrote more than 400 other songs, including the Christmas classic The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...
...There's also the hourlong "Miss Match," starring Alicia Silverstone, in whch the poor man's Reese Witherspoon plays a divorce lawyer who's also a budding Cupid. It's from "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, which is promising, but while the premise sounds like it might hold out for 90 minutes' worth of a feature romantic comedy, we'll have to see if it can sustain a series. Finally, "The Lyon's Den," the long-awaited return to TV of Rob Lowe - after, what, three days? - is a legal thriller set in Washington, D.C. whose ultimate storyline...
...Speaking of "The West Wing," Zucker assured advertisers that the show would be better than ever despite its recent ratings slide and the loss of creator-writer Aaron Sorkin. Zucker also praised the show's season-ending, over-the-top plot twists - the vice president resigns! the president's daughter gets kidnapped! - which have lately made the show play like "24" with too much dialogue and not enough torture...