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...debate spilled from TV talk shows to the movie and video screen. Popular movies often inspire imitations; that?s Hollywood?s version of brand appropriation, also known as stealing. But how many films have, within three months, inspired three movies denouncing...
...wires all around. Camera lovers, smile and say cheese to the OLYMPUS M:ROBE MR-500I, due in January. You can think of this as an iPod with a built-in camera: it has a 20-GB hard drive for music and photos, and a 3.7-in. color LCD screen for viewing pictures. It can combine still shots with music and make funky slide shows that include zooming and panning. Also look for the release next year of the PSP, a portable PlayStation. The new gizmo's short battery life may annoy some, but the buzzed-about player could pose...
...rose from poverty to become the archetypal Tagalog movie lead and a millionaire. He portrayed honest cops or soldiers brought low by corrupt forces, who always bounced back to take bloody revenge. In some parts of the country, overheated audience members were known to fire weapons at the screen when Poe's character was attacked. Poe lost in May to incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, although he and his supporters claimed the election was rigged...
...it’s the chess board on the screen in front of him that is Turnbull’s most identifying feature. In spite of a peripatetic early life—growing up in an academic household, dropping out of Harvard, living homeless in Berkeley—Turnbull, a member of the Class of 1971, is today known best as “The Chessmaster” of Harvard Square...
...cover of the book, “Today’s Random Medical News from the New England Journal of Panic-Inducing Gobbledygook” by Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman, shows a newscaster at his desk with three multicolored wheels-of-fortune at the top of the screen. After pressing a button on the desk, the newscaster prepares to report the following random result: COFFEE can cause DEPRESSION in TWINS...