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...next few weeks are critical for Hawkins -- and indeed the entire $5 billion video-game industry. Traditionally, the month of December is make-or- break time in the business -- when millions of parents decide what to buy their game-playing vidkids, and when manufacturers rake in 35% to 40% of their annual revenue. But the situation is particularly dicey this year. The industry is in the middle of a delicate transition -- from the so-called 16- bit technology at the heart of today's Sega and Nintendo machines to the next-generation game systems that can process data...
...funny. He was so young and so big. I thought, 'This big, big baby could be my son."' Bondy learned that Terfel "is not a guy who is pretentious and insists on his own way." On Terfel's wish list are parts like Falstaff, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress and Escamillo in Carmen. His first Wagner, probably at the Met, will be the comparatively light role of Wolfram in Tannhauser, with its lyrical ode to the evening star -- cat's cream to a baritone with Terfel's plush tone...
...tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
From Mozart's Don Giovanni to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the figure of the libertine, that politically incorrect swine, has swaggered provocatively through 200 years of operatic history. Cads, bounders and rakehells abound onstage: one thinks not only of the lecherous Don and Tom Rakewell but of Nerone, Pinkerton and Eugene Onegin as well -- moral reprobates who give hardly a second thought to the consequences of their actions...
...lover's worst instincts as she wreaks her revenge on society. Her foil, the unapologetic knave Valmont (the splendid baritone Thomas Hampson), is a cynical womanizer who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of his victims, unwisely and too well. Who is worse? The amoral rake who seduces and abandons without remorse? Or the wily temptress who sends her dark knight on errant missions of the heart? In this telling, the two protagonists not only are equally responsible, they deserve each other, and their fate...