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...years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous video games ever created. It has sold over 125 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two decades and even been played on the side of a skyscraper. Yet creator Alexey Pajitnov almost never saw a ruble for his creation...
...skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood? (See the top 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...Read an interview with Wii creator Shigeru Miyamoto...
...Gainsbourg's was surely of the self-punishing kind that could be appreciated by jury members Huppert, Asia Argento and Shu Qi, all of whom have played similarly extreme roles. Waltz, the suave German on Brad Pitt's tail in Inglourious Basterds, thanked the film's "unique and inimitable creator," Tarantino, because, he said, after 30 years in the business, "You have given me my vocation back." Later, the press asked both actors what they'd think if some of their scenes were cut for international release by their respective directors. Said Waltz, impishly, "I think they are planning...
...Glee's creator, Ryan Murphy, specializes in lampooning American appetites. In his dark comedy Popular, he took on the desire for social status; in the plastic-surgery drama Nip/Tuck, the hunger for physical perfection. Glee is all about the timely teen dream embodied and fed by Idol, High School Musical and YouTube: fame, glorious fame...