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...want to play old men on the screen. I don't want to be just sitting in chairs or walking slowly up and down. I'm 83 years old, but I'm as healthy as one can be, and still a fine-looking gentleman. I can fence, I can drive a car. But no one offers me any work. No one. Absolutely nothing to work on. The Screen Actors Guild, only if I press them, will they send me news about what's going on. It's as if once you get out of the movies, you disappear. You never...
...current copyright law: As Lessig explains, today's copyright laws regulate reproductions or "copies." But in a digital context, every time you listen to a song or play a video, that content is "copied" from a server somewhere to the hard drive in your computer. The same is not true when you crack open a book: "For most of American history it was extraordinarily rare for ordinary citizens to trigger copyright law ... RO culture in the digital age is thus open to control in a way that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright...
...planet, dipping into craters, drilling into rocks and sending back data about Mars' makeup and watery past. But the Martian elements have left the rovers increasingly arthritic: Opportunity's robotic arm has stiffened to the point that controllers no longer retract it fully, and Spirit has been forced to drive backward as a result of a bum front wheel...
...road going forward is like an eight-lane highway with no access and egress signs, no directions, no lane markings, no speed limits, no police and no one knowing if they should drive on the left side or the right side of the road. You make your own rules and do your best to get to your destination. In the world of globality, you can't wait for someone else to set the rules...
...recent story about a prosecutor charged with the murder of a female colleague/lover is getting all the buzz. Snider requests a copy, reads it in one day, pitches it, writes a synopsis, and ends up pitching it again to a studio head, who recognizes her taste and drive. The book becomes the bestselling novel “Presumed Innocent,” the film adaptation stars Harrison Ford, and Snider becomes much more than a secretary.Snider, who is known for her reliable intuition, has learned by now what makes a good film, both commercially and artistically...