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...highest form of Norrath currency) and joining with other players to form guilds. It is that last part that's key. For EverQuest addiction is, at heart, a pleasantly social disease. "It's what players bring to the game that makes it what it is," says Will Wright, creator of the best-selling PC game The Sims, who plays EverQuest with his 15-year-old daughter and is hard at work on his own extensive multiplayer game...
America should hate Moby for all his hyphenate, cross-category greed, but he makes it awfully hard. His new album, 18, is like its creator: aggressively catholic. There are guitars, samples, surefire hits, instrumentals, dance grooves, happy songs, sad songs and angry songs. If you have a mood or desire, 18 has a song to match. And it's all pretty great...
DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of Mattel and creator of Barbie, the first mass-marketed American doll with adult curves; in Los Angeles. Male executives at Mattel were skeptical of an adult-looking doll's appeal to little girls, but Barbie, named for Handler's daughter, debuted in 1959 and has since sold 1 billion worldwide. After feminists denounced her as a symbol of objectification, Barbie took on such careers as doctor and astronaut. Handler, a breast-cancer survivor, later made artificial breasts for women who had had mastectomies...
...Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of the Mattel toy company and creator of the world's most popular doll, Barbie; in Los Angeles. The blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie was named after Handler's daughter Barbara, and since its introduction in 1959 more than 1 billion dolls have been sold in more than 150 countries. INDICTED. JAYSON WILLIAMS, 34, the former NBA forward...
Toward that end, Brustein assembled a team including Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones, a founding member of the ART, and writer Larry Gelbart, creator of the hit TV series M*A*S*H* and bookwriter of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum. Brustein also enlisted the help of production designer Michael Yeargan and director Andrei Serban...