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...more sophisticated, if less trusting. Jordan has made several trips to North Korea, as he did to Iraq, and says he has not cut deals for access there either. Yet the next time CNN reports from Pyongyang, the audience will be straining to see past the edge of the screen, looking for the man who--metaphorically or not--is holding...
...games into its handheld units. For example, its new Geko 201 ($150) invites users to traverse a virtual maze to capture a series of imaginary flags. To play, stand in any field or parking lot (you need at least 360 sq. ft. to maneuver) and look down at the screen to see where the nearest flag is located. Then walk or run toward it. An onscreen arrow updates your location and tells you when you've reached the flag. You can play alone or with friends, but make sure you look up every now and then...
...study drama, a more respectable art form, when he made an unpleasant discovery: to attend the school in Delhi, he had to speak fluent Hindi. He quickly lowered his standards and instead in 1962 entered India's new Film and Television Institute in Pune, believing that writing for the screen couldn't be too different than writing for the stage. But the New Wave movement was revolutionizing cinema around the globe and inspiring protean directors, from Martin Scorsese in the U.S. to Nagisa Oshima in Japan. Adoor realized that movies could transcend mass entertainment to become art. "I discovered cinema...
...When I ask to see some of his earlier films, he insists on taking me to a cinema in the heart of the city to watch the films on the big screen. As we pick our way through the Trivandrum traffic in his boxy Honda, chasing down a couple of spare prints, Adoor decries "the bankruptcy of mainstream Indian cinema"; he quite proudly states that he almost never watches popular Indian films - except occasionally on TV, where "the commercials actually come as a welcome relief." Adoor's own preferences still run toward the aging European masters who first inspired...
...manage to find some prints that have yet to join the cinematic afterlife, and the two of us screen them in Chitranjali's cavernous - and, thankfully, air-conditioned - theater. Adoor watches as intently as I do. After we screen 1990's Walls, a gritty take on an imprisoned political writer, I ask Adoor if he would have done anything differently. He shakes his head. "Whatever I thought now would be very wrong," he says, "Because of the distance, I would not know now as I did then." Since Adoor depends utterly on himself, on his own instincts...