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...chips aside, the public thirst for video bloodletting hasn't abated. "You couldn't have better timing for a 3-D shoot-'em-up game like Quake," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, research director for International Data Corp., a marketing-consultant firm in Framingham, Massachusetts. The way Zwetchkenbaum sees it, Quake's arrival will feed two huge markets: the demand for sophisticated 3-D games, and for multiplayer games that can be contested remotely over the Internet...
...heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...
Citizens of Eugene, Oregon, may soon be treated to the spectacle of two movie studios tripping over each other. This summer Disney and Warner plan to shoot competing versions of Pre, the tale of legendary Olympic runner STEVE PREFONTAINE, far left, who died in a 1975 car crash at age 24. Disney, which is spending about $7 million, had the edge initially, shooting crowd scenes last year. But script rewrites slowed the pace. Warner, with $25 million budgeted, has surged ahead, reserving the college track where Prefontaine ran. Filming could begin in June. Both sides had casting setbacks. Warner wanted...
...frenzied preparation. Only the following morning did he learn that the crusade's local organizers, reportedly after consulting with Billy's staff, had decided to use another of the organization's preachers. Months later, still furious, Franklin explicitly connected the incident to the politics of succession. "Listen, people will shoot you for $20; for $90 million, who knows?" he told Business North Carolina. "I wouldn't touch B.G.E.A. leadership with a 10-foot pole." Although, he added, if his father asked him personally he would give it "prayerful consideration...
...Emmy for her dramatic acting, but who can deny her talents as a first-rate comedienne? For years she has tackled Erica Kane with a mockingly forced resoluteness as Erica has gone about collecting ex-husbands through various careers as a supermodel (an occasion for Mahogany-inspired fashion-shoot montages), a cosmetics executive and editor of a news magazine called Tempo...