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Lovett thinks it's high time Hollywood dove on in. Geek-laden companies such as Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain (effects houses for Toy Story, Jurassic Park and Terminator II, respectively) have been turning digital technology into blockbuster grosses for years. And more recently, as Websites flacking for the likes of 101 Dalmatians and ID4 score multimillion "hit counts," the studios have come to value the Internet's impressive promotional clout...
...intrigued by your report on research into staying youthful and the possibilities of a vastly expanded life-span [MEDICINE, Nov. 25], but I can see a day coming when, if methods for preserving youth do become practical, they will be the exclusive domain of the megarich and powerful. A few lucky people will be given a chance to live more than one century, but the rest of us will experience, I fear, little or no benefit. I'd love to be proved wrong, but "health equals wealth" certainly seems to be the trend in America just now. DARRELL LELAND Albuquerque...
...most hotly awaited Barbie title is Fashion Designer (suggested retail price: $39.99), produced by the Hollywood special-effects studio Digital Domain (Interview with the Vampire, Apollo 13). The product lets users create as many as 15,000 different outfits that Barbie models in a 3-D walk down a runway. The patterns are printed out on special computer-compatible fabric and then assembled without sewing for Barbie to wear. At a showing for investors, "30-year-old women were having a great time making doll clothes," says an amused analyst who was there. Also part of the rollout...
...which Brinkley rightly responded, "Well, I'm not on the air." He's not, anymore, and he is finally liberated to inject some reality into TV-land, which otherwise throws up as a knee-jerk reaction those democratic platitudes we have all had to tolerate since news became corporate domain. Journalism as honesty? Journalism as the relation of reality? Journalism as acerbic sarcasm? Nyet. "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley...
...such manipulators in its recent sting. But the fact is the feds aren't set up to succeed time and again. The FBI and U.S. Attorney are great at undercover work and prosecuting fraud. But they don't know common stock from livestock. The market is the SEC's domain. But the SEC isn't empowered to employ wiretaps or conduct stings. No single agency is fully equipped for the mission...