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...content is king in the new world of global media, the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is no minor princeling. His The Phantom of the Opera has played in London's West End for 13 years and grossed an astounding $3.1 billion worldwide in ticket sales, to say nothing of CDs and sweatshirts. From his pen have also flowed Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Starlight Express. And Evita, with a little help from Madonna, grossed $146 million as a movie after racking up millions as a play. Like many an aristocrat before him, Lord Lloyd Webber (he was made a baron...
...type of information that did the most damage. This was no Ricky Martin request. It was millions of phantom users suddenly screaming "Yes, I heard you!"--which was very unusual since Yahoo hadn't said anything. Worse, the phantoms had all given Yahoo fake return addresses. Yahoo got so hung up trying to get back to them all, it couldn't get around to dishing up those Ricky links to regular users. Service, in other words, was denied. Visitors to Yahoo saw an empty screen...
...next three days were marked by serial slowdowns at some of the biggest sites on the Web: Amazon.com eBay, CNN.com (owned by Time Warner, parent company of TIME), ZDNet, ETrade, Excite. Like so many virtual vandals before him, the phantom foe clearly craved attention. He got it in the shape of a front-page media frenzy, a full-scale FBI investigation and a hastily convened White House conference on Web hacking. And yet he stubbornly refused to show up at his own party, prompting PC paranoia and all manner of conspiracy theories...
...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...
...good skin and aquiline features, or will it be pockmarked and disfigured? No one knows, not even our most respected comedic minds. I attempted to get in touch with George Lucas, who last year brought us the highest-grossing comedy feature of all time, Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace. But he didn't return my calls...