Word: mario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mario Puzo joined us for lunch and mentioned how he used to play three wishes as a kid but had now reduced them to one: "To die in my sleep." These two good friends did exactly that. It makes the grieving a little bit easier when people get what they wish...
...game programming to want to develop his latest idea. But he couldn't quite explain the concept to Nintendo, and the company couldn't understand it fully. "At first Pokemon was just an idea, and nothing happened," says Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind Nintendo's previous best seller, Super Mario Brothers. Miyamoto became Tajiri's mentor and counseled the younger man as he toiled on what would eventually be Pokemon. (Tajiri would pay ambivalent tribute to Miyamoto, giving the name Shigeru--Gary in the U.S.--to the snotty chief rival of Satoshi/Ash...
...wish: rarely has a jazz album come so directly from the heart. The opening cut, George Gershwin's I Loves You, Porgy, is exquisitely tranquil and songful, and the 10 tracks that follow are no less tender. Even Be My Love, Mario Lanza's high-C jukebox hit, is transmuted into a limpid cameo. The result is a record made to be played late at night, when the streets are empty, the air is still, and you feel like thinking about what might have been or could...
Diffusing attention from himself, Beatty voiced support for Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson, among others, as potential presidential candidates...
...today's celebrity-obsessed world, it may never be too early to start your children on learning their stars--and we're not talking astronomy. See if you (or the kids!) can match these celebrity children's authors and their new books! 1. MARIO CUOMO; 2. MARIA SHRIVER; 3. DEBORAH NORVILLE; 4. BOB DYLAN...