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...centennial has spawned revivals and observances. In London there have been productions of three of his plays. New York City has seen a sprightly all-Coward revue featuring Twiggy and a terrific concert version of Sail Away, starring Elaine Stritch in the role she created in 1961. On Dec. 16 (Coward's birthday), Lauren Bacall opens in Waiting in the Wings; late winter will bring Suite in Two Keys, starring Keir Dullea (pretty creative casting, given Coward's famous 1965 dismissal of the actor: "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow...
...course, it's these guys' jobs to shoot at each other. Now that coding for the PC version of Quake III is finished--it wrapped up at 4:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day--all that's left is tweaking for Mac and Linux versions, and plenty of play testing. Last week the only thing you could hear in Suite 666 was resounding cries of "Dammit, get out of the way!" and "I've picked up the shotgun. I'll cover you!" Carmack, described reverentially by a team member as "an evil genius," is not playing. He's already hard...
...began life as a (possibly fictionalized) diary by its heroine and has since been a novel, a movie, a Broadway musical, a movie version of that musical and an animated feature. It is now back to being a straight movie--without songs, without the Small House of Uncle Thomas ballet (thank God), but with a lot of exotic spectacle and a rather murky colonial confrontation that gives Jodie Foster, playing Anna, a chance to behave like a slightly prissy but good-hearted 20th century liberal...
...Reviewed by a team of scientists, the signs fall into two categories: direct manifestations of warming, called fingerprints, and events that could become more frequent and widespread with climate change, which are labeled harbingers. Here's an exclusive advance look at the highlights of the map. A more detailed version will be posted on Dec. 15 at www.climatehotmap.org
...with something--photographs or plaques; framed programs from the 1992 christening of the U.S.S. John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer named after both his father and grandfather; a model train designed after the full-size one McCain used to win his first Senate victory, complete with a tiny version of him with a shock of white hair at the back of the caboose. And there are three bricks from the Hanoi Hilton, the prison where McCain spent a part of his POW years...