First-Time Scripters Score 'Four'
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Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped screenwriting newcomers David Posamentier and Geoff Moore to adapt the best-selling thriller "The Rule of Four."
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NEW YORK -- David Murphy led off the first game of yesterday's day-night doubleheader by slamming a Jaret Wright fastball into the right-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium for his first major league home run. Tall, lanky, and with a sweet swing, Murphy, the Red Sox' first selection in the 2003 draft, had waited a long time for this.
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Back with his own look at the php/db|works conference is Cal Evans wrapping up Day Two:   Day Two at php|works started off with a bang. Rasums presented his "Getting Rich with PHP" as the opening keynote. If you've never seen this presentation, the OSCON version is described here with links to a video of it as well as the slides. It's an interesting presentation. I missed the first section of it at OSCON where he slaps around both IE and FLASH pointing out some serious security holes. Again, it's a great presentation and worth the time to listen to.   Cal talks about...well...the talks and about the interviews he started (like with Chris Hartjes, Ilia Alshanetsky, Chris Shiflett, and Sebastian Bergmann).
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Advice for actors looking to get nominated for worst performance: multiple roles help.
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Broadway's actors overwhelmingly have approved their new four-year production contract, a deal that raises minimum salaries and includes an experimental provision covering the contentious issue of road shows.
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The web is loaded with articles that tell you how to get started with VBScript ... there are a couple here! But there aren&#39;t too many telling you how to do the things that really count ... like administering
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The actress will now feature in a game.
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CBS has ordered four  additional scripts for freshman series "Moonlight," the  network's lowest-rated show on Friday nights.
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While most of the attention will be placed on Tiger Woods and other powerhouse stars at the Ryder Cup, it could be the performances of four rookies that determine the success of the United States.
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Three young indie filmmakers have shown promise with strong, idiosyncratic debuts. Flouting conventions, however, may not be so easy on the road ahead.
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A fourth independent director for the software company took the stand Friday.
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On the "PHP in Action" blog, Dagfinn Reiersol has posted some ideas about developing PHP applications (really, any applications) from scratch - by faking it.    So  where and how on earth do you  start?  Let's say we know one thing about the result; call it the known fact. Do we start by  making educated guesses about what should be in the black box? A lot of development is like that.   Enough of this philosophical mumbo-jumbo; what does it mean in practice? Well, it's test-driven development, and more specifically, it's what Kent Beck calls the Fake It patttern. You implement a test for the result, then you hard code the result. It's an absolutely weird idea that's magical in its effect because it get you started. And as the German expression goes, aller Anfang ist schwer--all beginnings are difficult.    He illustrates the point with a set of code examples - one side being the unit test (written first, of course) and the other the actual code. All it does is set a URL to a variable inside a class, but the point is made.   Starting at the high level is good when you know the full scope of the project, but that's not always a possibility. This is a good alternative to getting started without causing too many issues down the road.
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Tycho:  Having already purchased two fifths of The Orange Box over the last few years, the level of value I have derived from it is "fantastic" but not "supernatural."  For Gabriel, who never finished the second Half-Life and never purchased the first episode, the aforementioned Box represents an intimidating and possibly even brutal level of content for one's holiday dollar.  It's hard enough trying to keep up with all the games that are coming out, but when you start putting more than one game on the disc the difficulty is compounded.   We're lucky, then, than the best thing on there can be completed in only a couple hours.     I've tried to make my rounds through the disc, but I kept coming back to Portal until I'd completed it.  I expect every part of this strange collection to be full of virtue, in the way that Valve's anomalous position in the games industry allows: self-funded development in their sky-high Bellevue commune until each product sings.  But Portal is strange, even for them.  Risky on every axis, we may now say that the "first person puzzle comedy" has now been proven out as a genre.  The gameplay is strong, but Portal's unique combination of hilarity and menace elevates it, resulting in a few perfect, indelible hours of gameplay.          My TeamFortress 2 experience so far on the console has been fairly uneven.  Coming from the PC beta, where I sometimes battled with stability concerns but the games played smooth, I'm now grappling with the reverse.  I love the play experience, as I've already expressed, and I'm rarely of the opinion that having more players automatically improves a game - so the differential between the PC and 360 platforms isn't as important to me as it might be to others.  No, the problem with TF2 on the 360 (and likely the PS3, as well) is that peer to peer hosting just ain't cutting it.  There are games that seem to manage it better, but with Vista PCs authenticating into the service now peer to peer games should be an option.  This needs fixed overnight.     I'll try to complete the second Episode over the weekend, interleaved with finishing the writing on my own game, which has become more difficult since completing Portal.  I'm starting to think that Precipice needs a greater concentration of synthesized ladies.      I would be abdicating my duty if I neglected to mention the EA thing, which is really the EA/BioWare/Pandemic thing.  I was under the impression that BioWare and Pandemic had merged precisely to give themselves leverage over monolithic publishers like Electronic Arts, but who knows.  The biggest fallout in the short term is that, beyond the first Mass Effect, a multiplatform release is almost certain.  Of course, I wholly endorse that kind of thing, but I imagine that Microsoft might hold a different opinion.  After spending years promoting the series, enduring delays, and now having spent months beating the shit out of it in test, it's fair to say that MS was investing in a larger trilogy - one that gamers would associate exclusively with their brand.
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One play demonstrated the star Eli Manning can become. Another play, a few minutes later, showed that he's still a rookie.
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While it's not always a  foolproof barometer, in most cases when you see six writing and  10 producing credits on a movie, you can anticipate a fair  amount of confusion about the story the film wants to tell.
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The Hollywood premiere&#039;s a wrap. The early reviews are in. At   least one oddsmaker is crunching numbers. Now all Superman needs to do   is fly.
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(CBS/AP) Nicolas Cageâs fourth collaboration with mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer opened much stronger than expected this weekend.