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That is a good thing in an age in which television screens are getting wall size, and it's one reason media rooms have come into their own. "Everybody has to have their 50-inch plasma TV," says architect Matthew Gottsegen of New York City. The Solomont home has one such giant screen and four smaller ones. "On any given Sunday, we can have 10 to 30 people watching the games," says Sheera Solomont...
...California-based health plans say they carefully screen the doctors their patients can use in Mexico, and Pesqueira at the Ministry of Health says there has been a concerted effort by the Mexican government to enforce quality control in recent years. "There are a few providers that are absolutely up to U.S. standards in everything they do," says San Diego neurologist James Grisolia. "Then there are other people who vary in quality. The regulations are not as strict...
...cynical and snakelike statesman Talleyrand in a miniseries on Napoleon currently running with great fanfare on French television. The role requires Malkovich to ooze the delicious malevolence he has made his signature, most memorably as Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. In person, though, Malkovich is nothing like his scary screen personas. "I'm not the least bit cynical or manipulative," he says - but with enough forced grace to make you wonder whether he is being just that. He left America 13 years ago and for almost a decade has lived in the Luberon region of Provence with his partner, Nicoletta Peyran...
Anyone who bet on the perpetually recycled promise that the Internet was about to find a new home on the displays of mobile phones is probably broke by now. Although beset by bad marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft...
Fennessy also held a casting call at Wellesley, which attracted over 900 students in search of silver-screen magic and an $81 daily stipend. Wellesley sophomore Laura Young, one of the 200 extras chosen, said the experience was authentic to a fault...