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...more than 30 years and helped with the production of several Disney animated movies. Now my daughter (an avid Star Wars fan) is helping digitally restore the Disney films her grandfather worked on. When I was growing up, I was so proud to see the Technicolor logo on the screen. And today when I see my daughter's name in the credits, I am just as proud. I don't understand Hollywood's reluctance to go digital. Perhaps younger producers will embrace Lucas' vision. Diana Robertson Laguna Niguel, California, U.S. Your headline asked, "Can this man save the movies? (Again...
...billboard technology is free of challenges. Advertisers and privacy advocates are worried that interactive campaigns could be intrusive. Not everyone wants to be talked to by a billboard. "If somebody starts pinging phones, there's going to be consumer backlash," says Tom Burgess, CEO of Third Screen Media, a mobile-marketing and software consultant. For that reason, the newest high-tech outdoor campaigns invite consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each...
...would be the center of a new resort, they told Yu. They would have windsurfing, golf and maybe skiing. The DVD played a montage of flowers opening in time-lapse followed by pictures of ripe fruit and beachside cottages. "This is our concept," one official told Yu, as the screen filled with hot-air balloons...
...good point about the danger of too much sedentary time? Absolutely. And it would be easier to take seriously if Honey didn't use every manipulative TV trick in the book--sensationalistic special effects, trumped-up drama, Grand Guignol music--to keep you in planted front of the screen. In words that Homer Simpson once used to describe alcohol, this is TV anointing itself as "the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems...
...needs to get tougher about controlling its borders. If there is any easy part to writing an immigration law, this is it. Every proposal before Congress calls for more border-patrol agents, more jail cells and detention centers for captured illegal immigrants, and new technology to enable employers to screen employees to ensure that they are lawfully in the country...