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...seeing." The link between games technology and other disciplines is also explored. A local architectural practice has used software from the shoot-'em-up Quake to let clients walk around virtual buildings and check out the view from the windows. An interface that creates ripples in an on-screen vertical water surface when you wave your hands could lead to a whole new way of controlling software without the need for a keyboard, mouse or joy pad. Game On has something for everyone, whether you're an obsessive gamer, a student of media studies...
...live music into hospitals, homes for the elderly and prisons. In his last public appearance, to receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) from Prince Charles, Moore was confined to a wheelchair. In photos he was gray, gaunt, stark, with none of the irrepressible whimsy that marked his on-screen lives...
...Kelly reminds me of any modern star, it?s George Clooney: a rugged Irish-American, an intense competitor, a man?s man most at ease with other man?s men. That was certainly true of the on-screen Gene, with the manly bonding of "On the Town," "Fair Weather" and "The Three Musketeers." Says Andre Previn, who wrote the "Fair Weather" music: "Gene always did like to have a trio, himself and two other men, two other fellas for him to play off, who could dance and sing - if possible, not quite as well...
...like Joely Richardson and Amanda Plummer to take their kit off, came knocking on Mok's door in 1997 suggesting a part in his forthcoming film, 8 1/2 Women. Mok turned him down: despite the lunacy of the characters she had played; she feared that full-frontal nudity and on-screen sex was something she wouldn't be comfortable with. What she means perhaps is that a director other than Greenaway might have let her find that comfort zone...
...series as possible, but the format of the strict narrative fails to capture the imagination and soul of Rowling’s literary wit and vision. Characters that prove to play essential roles in the stories to follow are often carelessly inserted, solely for the purpose of displaying them on-screen, if only for a few minutes each. Admittedly, part of the problem is the book itself; Sorcerer’s Stone was created as the first of seven installments concerning Harry’s education at Hogwarts. Rowling’s novels grow only increasingly dark as her narrative...