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...Cell Phones Chinese mobile-phone maker Panda uses skateboard dudes in a television advertisement to give its cuddly brand a dose of countercultural cool...
...trippy, candy-colored concoction with how-tos for grassroots activism, like starting an online petition, and links to eco-friendly companies and products. Lindvall's getting ready to shop around a television show, which she describes as "reality TV with a message"--starting a community garden or visiting a skateboard park to hear what kids have to say about anything from alternative-energy sources to world politics. And Roman Coppola, who directed Lindvall in last year's CQ in the dual role of Valentine, a bombshell actress, and Dragonfly, the Barbarella-esque heroine Valentine plays, is on board to create...
...sell a new line of sportswear, tagged Y-3. This month, Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending: the nation's youngsters. "Like it or not, we are defined by our youth culture," says Mihara, himself sporting a Grateful Dead T shirt and a baseball cap emblazoned with...
...show Guerin's flaws have come under fire. In the film, Guerin's obsession with her work seeps into her family life until she starts neglecting her husband and 6-year-old son, Cathal. In a poignant scene, Cathal is unwrapping his birthday presents and holds up a new skateboard to show his mother. When she asks who gave it to him, he replies, "You and Daddy did." Guilt spreads like a shadow across Guerin's face as the consequences hit home. For some, the scene is one step too far. "That was so unfair," says Prendiville. "It just wasn...
...sugar water you are asked to swallow is this: that the games industry, now a $10 billion business, bigger than Hollywood, will never grow up. No matter how mainstream the potential audience gets, they will always want to play wizards, shoot zombies, skateboard, wrestle. Female characters are fine, but they must wear bikinis and have figures unlike any woman who isn't nine inches tall and made out of plastic. Games are good if they have the loudest bangs, the coolest aliens and the most gore. Not everyone in the industry has their head buried in the sandbox like this...