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DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, popular historian and author of A Night to Remember, the seminal account of the Titanic disaster, upon which 1997's Oscar-winning film was based; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. As a boy, Lord became fascinated with the sinking of the world's biggest ship after finding a slim volume on the tragedy in his aunt's home. His meticulous approach to reconstructing events--he interviewed 63 of the survivors--turned the 1955 book into a best seller...
...with yet another shrink-wrapped computer game 18 months ago, Denise Dituri never suspected it would transform her into Lorelahna, the Druid of Dark Fury. This Sacramento, Calif., radio-station manager and mother of three had never been much of a fantasy buff. Dungeons and Dragons did not appeal. Lord of the Rings was just O.K. But somehow this game, EverQuest, was different. Soon Denise was playing 18 hours a week--and, paradoxically, spending more time with her family than ever. "The longest conversation in our house at dinner," she says, "is about what we've done in Norrath that...
...DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, narrative historian and author of popular historical accounts such as A Night to Remember (on the Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor); in New York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure...
...Frank Sikora covered the civil rights movement in Birmingham and is the author of the 1991 book "Until Justice Rolls Down" which chronicled the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and "Selma, Lord, Selma," a verbal history of the civil rights struggle in that Alabama city...
When you've got a franchise like Spider-Man, you'd be a fool to pay an actor $20 million; Tobey Maguire got $4 million. Studios will work even harder to find scripts like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and The Incredible Hulk in which the idea itself is the marquee. One irony of all this is that it makes movies more like television. Says Walter Parkes, the co-head of DreamWorks' film division: "The network-television business is really about three things: demographics, scheduling and series. We're becoming a little bit like that...