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...surprising is that no one in India has done it sooner," says Rajjat A. Barjatya, managing director of Rajshri Media, Rajshri Group's digital-media and entertainment arm. "This model hasn't worked for Hollywood because they are extremely protective of their content and their domestic market is huge. But for India, this is the future." In November 2006, Rajshri released the romantic drama Vivah on its website, Rajshri.com, the same day it hit theaters. Within a week of its premiere, the film had been viewed online more than a million times. The Web release would eventually bring...
Horrifyingly, it appears that Cassidy lived for up to two days after falling into a stupor. Forgotten and alone, he sat in his room until he died. "My God, he was there for three days, and no one even found him. That's a huge scandal," says Dr. William Kearney, Cassidy's Army psychiatrist. Regulations that require a soldier to show up for formation three times a day or be tracked down were widely ignored, say soldiers who stayed at Fort Knox. "You could easily linger for two days in a coma," Kearney says, "and if anybody had opened...
About lunchtime, Cassidy spoke by telephone with his mother Kay McMullen. "Mom, there's a lift dropping huge bundles of shingles on top of the roof," she says he told her. "It seems like I'm back in Iraq again--my head is pounding." But around dinnertime he had an upbeat conversation with Melissa. He talked happily about visiting home the next weekend. Two weeks after that, he was to return for good and continue treatment at a civilian hospital...
...brought a new breed of director, steeped in movie lore and movie love, making smart films that were huge hits--and for the longest time, Oscar ignored them too. The Godfather won Best Picture, but its auteur, Francis Ford Coppola, was not named Best Director. (He won for The Godfather Part II.) Nor did the Academy give Spielberg an Oscar for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark or E.T. (He had to wait till 1994, when Schindler's List took Best Picture and Best Director.) Martin Scorsese, by general acclamation the most intense...
...Berners-Lee. “It’s common in an organization for people to feel protective about their data,” he said. “The leadership that is required to change the ethos, the fear that happens about letting go of the data, is huge,” But when an audience member questioned the potential dangers of bringing more data into the public domain, Berners-Lee replied that it would be necessary to ensure that new technology does not violate personal privacy. “We want the technology to be the Lego...