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...Four of these five films were nominated by the DGA (Directors' Guild of America) and the PGA (not the golfers - the gofers - sorry, I meant the producers). Iwo Jima slipped into the Dreamgirls slot. Only The Departed is an old-fashioned studio movie. Iwo Jima, released by Warner Bros., was made for a miniaturized $15 million. The other three entries were sponsored by the art-house subsidiaries of major companies: Paramount Vantage for Babel, Fox Searchlight for Sunshine, Disney's (not the Weinstein brothers') Miramax for The Queen. This verifies the trend last year, when four of the films nominated...
...million Prize money won by Daly on the PGA Tour since he turned pro in 1987, income augmented by endorsements, which earned him $7 million...
...South Korean mainland, 40 new courses are set to open by 2010 as a result of golf's exploding local popularity. In several cities in Russia, where golf was rarely played until recently, construction is picking up too. "It's not just about the golf," says PGA pro David Frost, who has played on many of the newest courses around the world. "To attract travelers these days, golf courses have to offer an extra feature. Spain has the Riviera and the nightlife, Hawaii the swimming, Africa the safaris...
Take the old Xbox's flagship golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Put it side by side with the 2006 version, currently a work in progress. The grass in the old version looks like a green carpet; in the new version, each blade of grass is animated individually and sways to its own rhythm. In the old version, trees make crude, round, blobby shadows; in the new version, each individual leaf has its corresponding individually rendered leaf shadow. The play of light on the water hazards is not readily distinguishable from a filmed image. The fidelity is disconcerting...
...about who you are. As you might expect, there are clear game-playing divisions along the fault lines of sex and age. Consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation 2 are predominantly the territory of twentysomething men, who prefer to picture themselves as sports stars (like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005) and racing drivers (Gran Turismo 4). Men 50 and older prefer martial games like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Teenage girls are much more likely than boys to play games on their phone, while older women make up the majority of people playing card games such as Hearts online...