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...began developing software to turn the video game Final Fantasy into a movie four years ago. "We have a couple of generations now that have grown up with gaming. Kids are used to living in a 360 degree digital universe, and they don't necessarily accept a flat background...
...FLAT UNIVERSE...
...Does the Universe Curve? diagram). The surface of a sphere has what's called positive curvature; if you go far enough in one direction, you will never get to the edge but you will eventually return to your starting point. An infinitely large sheet of paper is flat and, because it is infinite, also edgeless. And a saddle that extends forever is considered edgeless and negatively curved. It also turns out that any triangle you draw on the paper has angles that add up to 180[degrees], but the sphere's angles are always greater than 180[degrees...
...sounds awful! Has the Wizard misplaced his magic? No, it's just a wand glitch: one guitar string, offensively flat, needs to be tightened. And now that it is, Paul can make terrific music, recalling his '50s hits with vocalist Mary Ford as well as his earlier and later jazz and country work. He plays 'Rainbow' largo, insinuating a delicate, wistful mood, then pricking it with a couple of puckish allusions to late-'50s guitar hits inspired by him: the monster chords of Link Wray's 'Rumble,' the seductive electronic weeping in Santo and Johnny's 'Sleep Walk.' Paul...
Zelda Fitzgerald may have aced her on the flat-out-crazy part, but few literary women of the 1920s were as miserable as Virginia Woolf, who ultimately drowned herself to get rid of the voices in her head. That doesn't bother NICOLE KIDMAN, who has donned loads of makeup and a dour countenance to play Woolf in an adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, due out at the end of the year. "I'm having a lot of fun," says Kidman. "The theme of The Hours is the way in which Woolf's writing Mrs. Dalloway affects other...