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Paul Wilson, chairman/CEO, Wilson Grand Communications...
...more growth trajectory, thanks in part to the introduction of three popular new platforms. The $50 billion industry hasn't been around long enough for other recessions to provide a guide as to how it will fare. (People got through the Great Depression just fine without Grand Theft Auto). But, as a bang-for-your-buck form of entertainment, gaming seems likely to maintain its upward trend. "It's cavalier for me to say games won't be impacted at all, but games won't be impacted at all," says Pachter. "Maybe it will dent growth a little...
...this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea but his fidelity to it as it grows and grows and splits its seams. It's become a child he can't control, the alien seed he spawned. Any creative person, indeed anyone who's launched some grand project (renovating a home, planting a garden, starting a business), must be familiar with this dread: that the creation has taken on its own life, that it will overwhelm and consume its creator, that the work will never be finished. Caden couldn't bring his magnificent idea to fruition. Kaufman...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
...York Philharmonic (NYP) concert last February at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre - a recording of which has just been released on DVD by Medici Arts - began with a welcome from a comely young North Korean woman in traditional dress. She expressed the hope that the performance would "herald the first step in rapprochement between the two countries," just before the esteemed orchestra entered the stately 2,500-seat auditorium...