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Someday soon, some bright spark will make a video game version of E3, the annual games conference in Los Angeles. You will play a journalist running from booth to booth, trying to avoid being deafened by hundreds of booming sound systems. Replenish your energy meter with $10 hamburgers! Try not to stare at the scantily-clad Booth Babes! Find parking! The ultimate aim will be to play a game for more than five minutes without a company media rep telling you how great it is. If their presence overloads your hype meter, it's game over...
Still, the scrutiny may have helped Hitler avoid a pitfall of TV biopics: focusing on psychology--bad childhoods, thwarted ambitions--to the exclusion of history and society. Why a child becomes a man who would conceive of genocide is significant, but more crucial is how a civilized nation could let him do it. Hitler asks the latter question, admirably and intelligently...
...yogurt to find out that they didn't have any organic yogurt," he says. And while the delivery person was prompt and polite (deliveries are scheduled in 90-min. blocks from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), the fresh flowers the shopper ordered were forgotten. He decided he'd rather avoid the $9.95 delivery fee and do his own shopping...
Allowed to leave his Somerville apartment only to meet with his attorney or doctors, Pring-Wilson must also meet weekly with a probation officer, avoid drug use and alcohol consumption, surrender his passport and maintain no contact with witnesses in the case. He must stay in Massachusetts for the duration of the trial unless he obtains special permission from the court, Hines ruled yesterday...
Lynch argued today that Pring-Wilson “has attempted to avoid responsibility” and was “trying to cover up his wrongful conduct” by lying to the police...