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...salute to New York City firemen, The Guys, starring Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, which has been filmed with Sigourney Weaver. Or British actor and director Steven Berkoff's solo performance Requiem to Ground Zero. (Both, along with dozens of other Sept. 11-themed shows, graced this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) "I haven't tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which...
...that his client may not continue in Formula One when his contract with Ferrari runs out in 2004. Until then, the racing looks as if it will stay boringly predictable. GOLF Epic Contest O thou Golfinia, Goddess of these plains, Great patroness of Goff, indulge my strains So wrote Edinburgh legal clerk Thomas Mathison in 1743 in one of the first books to describe the game that began with players hitting pebbles across sand dunes and rabbit holes in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland, sometime during the 15th century. Mathison?s 32-page work, The Goff, written in the satirical...
...like Final Fantasy. But the show is not just a timeline of game genres and chip development (plus a chance to play Tomb Raider), it also tries to make you think. "Game On" - which runs at London's Barbican Centre throughout the summer and in mid-September moves to Edinburgh, then on to continental Europe, the U.S. and Japan - is divided into sections: games families, making and marketing, games culture, sound, cinema, future technology. There are driving games, sports games, kids' games and "twitch" games requiring rapid movements. There's ephemera in the form of magazines and fliers...
...been making $6.50 an hour at McDonald's when, she says, she started selling drugs to make more money. Then an addict tried to trade her his daughter for a bag of cocaine, and Collins was shocked into going straight. She enrolled in a yearlong Job Corps program in Edinburgh, Ind., in which she learned to operate heavy equipment. Last week she started an apprenticeship that pays $15 an hour. "Job Corps saved my life," she says...
...surprised that AOL is experiencing difficulties, since I know how wasteful its marketing strategy is. I have a huge pile of free-trial AOL CDs that were sent to me despite my having repeatedly told AOL that I am very satisfied with my present Internet provider. NICK GODWIN Edinburgh...