Word: hollywood
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...Skye in the Scottish Hebrides would have little need of adornment. But adorning unlikely physical spaces--natural and man-made--is what Angus Farquhar does. Farquhar, 44, is the founder of a Glasgow-based environmental-arts organization called NVA nva.org.uk that for nearly 15 years has been bringing Hollywood-scale lighting and acoustic effects to unusual places in Europe--a shipyard, a tramway, a gorge, a glen...
...longer do I believe in fairytales"). Simpson's voice is blandly likable, but she overemotes so much that you can't fail to deduce whom she's talking about on I Don't Want to Care and Let Him Fly. You half expect to see an Access Hollywood camera lingering over your shoulder. Her narcissism might have been leavened by good songs, but most are content to rip off tunes from older, better hits. (Walkin' Round in a Circle is credited as containing "interpolations from Dreams," written by Stevie Nicks. Interpolations? Between You & I--which should be Me, but never...
...People are accepting that this is an activism tool that can help create change. It's not a distribution system that maximizes profit, so it wouldn't work for Hollywood. Think about it: every house party we hold requires just one person to buy a DVD because we're not charging anyone to watch the film at people's homes. Hollywood is not running to embrace a model for social change. I'm not sure anybody's found a way to monetize...
...therapy, researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an interactive health care teddy bear, with advice from Hollywood's Stan Winston Studio, the engineers behind AI's "Teddy," according to MIT student researcher Dan Stiehl...
...small Hollywood studio, Williams and directors from other Case media institutions created three films for the IVR-Cave: two for speech therapy patients about ordering food at a McDonald's counter and drive-through, and a third for speech pathology students, about diagnosing a child with a communication disorder and better communicating themselves with the parents. Each film contains multiple branch points, where a therapist can choose how the scenario will proceed depending on the patient's response. For example, if the patient is acting up, the McDonald's employee may go and get the manager, while if the customer...