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...wartime secrecy. At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing built a succession of vacuum-tube machines called Colossus that made mincemeat of Hitler's Enigma codes. At Harvard, large, clattering electromechanical computers in IBM's Mark series also did wartime calculations. Even the Germans made a stab at computing with Konrad Zuse's Z electromechanical computers, the last of which was the first general-purpose computer controlled by a program...
...Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes the process of imprinting, during which young birds attach themselves to a being or an object...
...teens and Hollywood are on that same intimate basis. "Everything is being cast younger in Hollywood," says Cathy Konrad, producer of Williamson's new black comedy, Killing Mrs. Tingle. "You'll read a script where the characters are 40 years old, and the studio will ask if they can be in their early 20s instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt...
Fortunately for Hollywood, there are millions of attractive kids with a show-biz bug. "Casting directors used to recruit out of Yale drama school," says Konrad. "Now they go to small towns to watch high school plays." Or they receive a videotape from Ohio. "I'm kind of a fresh-face type of deal," says Holmes, asked to explain her appeal. "It's not that I'm sexy, I know that! Whatever. I know it won't last forever, but I'm glad to be in my teens and doing these things...
...Canada; at 14 she dropped out of school to join the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera; a few years later she moved to L.A. and was cast in Party of Five. "This new wave of talent is all- consuming in Hollywood right now," says Cathy Konrad, who produced the Scream movies. "Neve has a step up because audiences have been identifying with her for years on Party of Five. When she makes her real star turn, she'll have a body of work behind...