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...memorizing all the buttons on video-game controllers and figuring out which one to push when. Now I know better. How else to explain the success of EyeToy games for PlayStation 2? EyeToy games replace the handheld game pad with a video camera that translates your body movements into onscreen action. Since the first EyeToy game went on sale last year, Sony has sold more than 4 million units worldwide (including 1 million in the U.S.). To put that number into context, it is about as many units sold as the single best-selling video game of the past year...
...original Sims, in which you controlled the daily lives of simulated humans onscreen, was all about keeping your characters alive and prosperous in a generic suburban setting. Released in February 2000, it is the best-selling computer game ever. The sequel, out this week for $50, is much more imaginative. As with the original, you can start out the hard way by designing characters from scratch, building a house and searching the want ads for entry-level jobs. But you can also take over the lives of more than a dozen quirky pre-made families. In Veronaville, you can play...
...screen with the waifish Cold Mountain star in last year's Dogville, replied that "[Kidman's] not a legend. She's a beginner." The dig seemed to be aimed more at the breathless journalist than at Oscar winner Kidman--Bacall later said the two have "a fabulous relationship both onscreen and off." It's just that to be a legend, the blunt Bacall explained, "you have to be older." Now, that whippersnapper Meryl Streep--she's getting there...
...star, Reese Witherspoon. But Nair's hand creates the movie's personality: she fills the film with vibrant costumes and boisterous energy. "Early 19th century London was filthy and cacophonous; it had coal and pigs and s___ on the street," says Nair. "That city we never see onscreen; everything is always genteel drawing rooms. And I wanted you to smell the s___, because I couldn't be dragged to see those genteel, hope-the-guy-proposes-to-me kind of movies...
...sees the new film The Brown Bunny is interested in only one scene: an intimate act CHLOE SEVIGNY performs on VINCENT GALLO. It's unclear if it's all real Gallo that the audience is treated to. But what's undeniable is that more men in Hollywood are showing onscreen all that their mamas gave them...