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...Ritalin. "When he was 10 years old, he didn't want a birthday party because he just couldn't deal with it," she recalls. Then, his mother says, Nick "bottomed out and became suicidal, and one day I found him in a closet with a toy gun pointed at his head, and he said, 'If this was real, I'd use it.'" The next day she saw a psychologist who had recently evaluated Nick and was told, "If you don't get him help, next time he'll be successful." Nick was found to be suffering from clinical depression...
...known as "the King." They keep standings from race to race, and Gordon has won driver of the year three of the past four years, the youngest ever to win three times. His earnings last year from race winnings, sponsorship deals and the sale of everything from hats to toy cars were $14 million...
...scoop" (cab) that twists and lurches in the dark while 3-D images of destruction explode from 25 large movie screens to the accompaniment of cunning fire and water effects. Spider-Man jumps onto the hood of the scoop, Doctor Octopus shakes it like a gorilla with a new toy, Hobgoblin tosses flaming pumpkins, Electro makes malefic use of a giant socket plug, Hydro Man spritzes everyone, and the scoop plummets what feels like hundreds of feet from the sky into concrete canyons that suddenly seem grand--Grand Guignol, that is. By the happy-ending salvation in a giant spiderweb...
...Hollywood's most influential executives, men who worked together to create such Disney classics as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. Now they are locked in a multimillion-dollar battle about profit participation in such things as Pooh-n-You games at Club Disney and the upcoming film Toy Story 2. Katzenberg claims that as head of the studio from 1984 to 1994, he is due 2% of all income from films and TV shows made during that period--in perpetuity. (Think sequels, videos, Broadway shows and merchandising.) Disney says that by leaving in 1994, two years before...
...create a Bavarian castle or Victorian mansion, then explore the finished building in 3-D. Austin Powers goes head-to-head with Dr. Evil in Berkeley Systems' newest addition to the cheeky You Don't Know Jack trivia series. And in keeping with the latest trend in the toy business--coupling hardware with software--Mattel will show its Me2Cam, a digital camera that drops your live image into a (G-rated) virtual-reality game. Even the new Star Wars titles steer clear of the combat-heavy themes of previous releases. One is more of an adventure game, the other...