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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Maugham produced nine works of fiction and nonfiction, all the while wanting to really make it as a dramatist. He hit pay dirt with his play Lady Frederick in 1907. But by the time of his last play, Sheppey, in 1933, he had come full circle; he was done with the world of the theater, which he found almost hateful, and only wanted to concentrate on his fiction, considering that, at last, to be his real writing. He was an acknowledged master of the short story and a great deal of his fiction was based on material provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drama Queen: William Somerset Maugham | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...like to play guitar, and I like to plunk away on the piano. But I wouldn't hold your breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ewan McGregor | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

NEIL SIMON, American playwright, after a revival of his play Brighton Beach Memoirs closed a week after it opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Mafia Wars is a game you can play on Facebook or MySpace or various other social networks. It's insanely popular: Zynga, the company that makes it, claims that it has more than 25 million players. (Zynga also makes the ubiquitous agri-sim game FarmVille.) Part of the appeal is that it costs nothing to play Mafia Wars. That is, if nothing is how much your immortal soul is worth to you. (See the top 10 video games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...play Mafia Wars alone. Your friends on Facebook (or whatever network you're playing on) who also play Mafia Wars make up your family. They help you with your business and fight with you and send you gifts. The bigger the family, the better for business. And you have a lot of business: you develop real estate, act as a hired gun and attack other players. The more money you get, the more stuff you can buy, like weapons and vehicles. The more stuff you have, the more jobs you can do and the more money you get. Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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