Word: hims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rolled together with his other passion: video games. Tajiri was raised on Space Invaders in the early days of the video-game revolution. He never went to college but studied electronics at a two-year technical school. He spent much of his time at arcades, perhaps the very ones that...
Yet collecting Pokemon and pitting them against one another is not a new kind of quest, simply one tweaked with technology. In Asia, fathers and grandfathers still tell of growing up in the midst of World War II, of nights of not knowing what to do with yourself except sneak...
Set in medieval Japan, Mononoke imagines a war involving several bands of humans--and a more desperate battle between man and the environment. Ashitaka (given voice in Neil Gaiman's American adaptation by Billy Crudup), the youngest survivor of a vanishing tribe, is gored by a demon boar that is...
What keeps moviegoers watching is, well, Hoffman himself, embodying these down-and-outers with a skill and conviction that are swiftly making him Hollywood's most unlikely leading man since that other Hoffman, Dustin, stammered through The Graduate the year Philip was born. By year's end the 32-year...
Directors exhaust superlatives extolling Hoffman's craft. "He's extraordinarily committed to infinitesimal detail," says Schumacher. "I don't think there's anything he can't do," raves Minghella. Adds Solondz: "Whatever genius is, he has it. He's fearless. I love him."