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Review of the new color BlackBerry (Aug 13 2003 05:43 GMT) - MSNBC review of the new color BlackBerry, the 7230, which has finally reached these shores. Reviewer Gary Krakow gives it high marks, saying that its color screen is "terrific" and that, "[u]ntil someone comes up with something better, RIM’s BlackBerry 7230 now sits at the top of the roost for wireless PDA/phone/email devices." Read... |
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Review of the new color BlackBerry (Aug 13 2003 05:43 GMT) - MSNBC review of the new color BlackBerry, the 7230, which has finally reached these shores. Reviewer Gary Krakow gives it high marks, saying that its color screen is "terrific" and that, "[u]ntil someone comes up with something better, RIM’s BlackBerry 7230 now sits at the top of the roost for wireless PDA/phone/email devices." Read... |
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Buck 65 double Lynch (Aug 13 2003 05:43 GMT) - Après Saloon et Yo La Tengo l'année dernière, Buck 65 participera cette année au festival de l'ICA à Londres. Le 5 septembre, il refera en direct la bande musicale d'Eraserhead le film culte de David Lynch réalisé en 1976. |
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Thunderbird is go! (Aug 13 2003 05:43 GMT) - Once I discovered the wonder of UniCode, I realized I needed a new email client. Eudora is my everyday email client but it's not Unicode-aware so for the past few years I've been using Rimarts Becky! to send and read Japanese email. I had no trouble creating and reading Chinese... |
Jonathon Delacour
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Thunderbird is go! (Aug 13 2003 05:43 GMT) - Once I discovered the wonder of UniCode, I realized I needed a new email client. Eudora is my everyday email client but it's not Unicode-aware so for the past few years I've been using Rimarts Becky! to send and read Japanese email. I had no trouble creating and reading Chinese... |
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Fear and loathing of Adobe e-books (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - A heartfelt DRM crime report comes from Elisabeth Liddell of the lively FoxPop Web site in Scotland. Ms. Liddell, a veteran computer user, experienced the full horrors of the Adobe eBook Reader. She writes vividly of her frustration with it and the successor, the general-purpose Adobe Acrobat 6 Reader, after she ordered a Mozart libretto in e format at Amazon.com. |
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Adriaan and Jim join the team (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Adriaan aka ado of Kung-Log fame and Jim aka mmdc of "fawning parody" fame have joined the Neoteny team. And, no, writing a parody of me will not guarantee you a job at Neoteny. |
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Miramax still enjoys the View (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Smith will helm 'Fletch,' 'Ranger' for Dimension Miramax Films has decided to renew with View Askew, extending the studio's first-look alliance with writer-director Kevin Smith and his producing partner, Scott Mosier. |
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ABC, Touchstone TV make Point with pilot (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - TV News: Platt will exec produce Lipsky adaptation ABC and Touchstone Television is marching to West Point, signing scribe Dave Lipsky to pen a pilot script for a one-hour military college drama based on his just-released bestseller "Absolutely American." |
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Trio making off with 'Bandit' (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Filmmakers to focus on bank robber's crime spree Di Bonaventura Pictures and Killer Films have optioned Timothy Ford's article "The Yankee Bandit," originally published in Gear magazine, for Tristan Patterson to adapt and make his directing debut. John Wells and Ford will serve as executive producers. |
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Franchise pact has 'Sun' ready to shine (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Seagal will star in self-penned yakuza pic Franchise Pictures has paid mid-six figures for the spec "Into the Sun," an action film written by Steven Seagal and Joe Halpin as a star vehicle for Seagal. Elie Samaha made an aggressive deal that will likely put the picture into production by year's end. |
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Scribes hit daily double at Warners (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Studio nabs 'Big' script, pilot pitch Writers Peter Steinfeld and DeShawn Schneider have doubled down at Warner Bros. Entertainment, selling high-concept comedy pitch "The Big Shot" to Warner's motion picture division and selling a pilot tentatively called "The Get" in a separate deal with Warner Bros. Television. |
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Copenhagen fest taps Ullmann for new kudo (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Event touts 145-film lineup; 14 compete for Golden Swan Norwegian actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann will receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the new Copenhagen Intl. Film Festival, which kicks off today with Danish director Jannik Johansen's debut, "Stealing Rembrandt," at Copenhagen's Imperial Theater. |
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Minor Montreal? (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Major pix lacking at rescheduled fest Although Montreal World Film Fest prexy Serge Losique said the event's controversial date change have had no negative effect on this year's programming, the official competition unveiled Tuesday is notably short on marquee names. |
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'Everybody' in trouble (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - TV News: Heaton illness, Garrett demands sidetrack laffer Things are getting pretty dramatic behind the scenes of CBS' No. 1 comedy. Production on the season premiere of "Everybody Loves Raymond" was pushed back again Tuesday. |
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Film lab techs ok pact (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Wages, benefits increased under new contracts Technicians employed at Los Angeles area Deluxe and Technicolor Film Labs have ratified Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees contracts. |
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Lampley dives into Olympics (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - TV News: O'Brien to anchor morning events Sportscaster Jim Lampley has landed his 12th Olympic assignment, signing with NBC to host its daytime programming for next year's Summer Games in Athens. |
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Davis bans film permit shakedown (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Bill will nix forced donations to elected officials Attempting to maintain a business-as-usual tone amid the recall frenzy, Gov. Gray Davis signed two dozen bills Tuesday, including a measure to fine elected officials up to $5,000 if they force producers to make donations for support in obtaining a film permit. |
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WGA faces reality with nonfiction scribe signup (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Business News: Org eyeing prod'n companies for new campaign The Writers Guild of America has signed 1,000 writers as potential members during its nascent organizing drive aimed at scribes working in the booming reality TV sector. |
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Taylor Fox VP diversity (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - TV News: Exec to focus on increasing minority representation Fox Broadcasting has tapped longtime television exec Ron Taylor as VP of diversity development. |
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U TV makes home for 'Brother' (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - TV News: Ridley inks one-year deal Scribe John Ridley ("Undercover Brother") is setting up shop at Universal Network Television, inking an exclusive overall deal with the studio. |
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Bangkok mart joins film fest (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film News: Gov't, PriceWaterHouse among fest sponsors Details for the first Bangkok Film Market to be held in conjunction with the Bangkok Intl. Film Festival have been announced by fest exec director Craig Prater. The market will focus on Southeast Asian films and locations. |
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Free Radicals (Boese Zellen) (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film Reviews: A multi-character criss-crosser with a big theme, Austrian helmer Barbara Albert's "Free Radicals" is an often compelling drama, marbled with dry humor and flecked with the supernatural, that provides food for thought but doesn't quite reach the brass ring. Film's fest future looks rosy, but commercial chances are limited to arthouse auds |
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South of the Clouds (Au Sud des Nuages) (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film Reviews: A train movie that forgot to hitch much of a script along for the ride, "South of the Clouds" still freights considerable charm as a motley group of mountain folk travel from the Swiss Alps across Russia and Mongolia in search of personal fulfillment in deepest China. Slim but picturesque, pic is solid fest fare with tube potential. |
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Work Hard Play Hard (Violence des Echanges en Milieu Tempere) (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film Reviews: A young management consultant faced with downsizing a firm finds his beliefs challenged in "Work Hard Play Hard." Pic displays maturity and lightness of touch from helmer Jean-Marc Moutout. Given the growing recognition factor of star Jeremie Renier and its contempo theme, film could have a small career with upscale auds. |
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Black Israel (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film Reviews: First real feature by French ethnologist Maurice Dores, docu "Black Israel" offers a perfunctory and scattershot overview of people of African heritage involved in Judaism and/or Jewish communities. Novelty of theme and diversity of interviewees helps maintain some interest, but this is undermined by the talking-head-dominated execution. |
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Any Way the Wind Blows (Aug 13 2003 05:40 GMT) - Film Reviews: A youth movie about an interconnected set of Antwerp dwellers who all end up at a party one summer night, "Any Way the Wind Blows" looks good and sounds better with its eclectic range of music, but eventually runs out of steam despite being crammed with incident. In its first six weeks, film tallied more than 50,000 admissions in Belgium. |
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