Hamlet for the masses
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SEP 11.0 "Hamlet" goes way beyond basic antivirus protection; release is loaded with defenses against zero-day attacks, rootkits, botnets and identity theft.
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When a character who is talked about but never seen is the most interesting figure in a drama, is that a problem? It is for Chad Beckimâs new play.
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Before I talk about "August: Osage County," and what is astonishing about this play, I want to start by stating the obvious. Playwrights don't go to the theater like other people. We don't go on our anniversaries or birthdays; we don't go because a play got a good review. (Most of us have stopped reading reviews, [...].
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Yell for a doctor in an Italian moviehouse and you risk a stampede. Almost everybody here, it seems, is a ``dottore.'' Or ``professore'' or ``maestro'' or some other honorific.
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Last week in Fargo, N.D., moviegoers had a choice among "Aliens vs. Predator," "The Great Debaters" Â and "Macbeth," live from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
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Let's review movie reviews. Millions read them. Actors covet nice ones. Studios scour them for positive nuggets to cram into advertising blurbs.
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Tycho: There are two things I must mention.First, Gabriel liked the cover for book four (entitled "Birds Are Weird") so much that he wanted to make a poster of it, and it's not worth arguing with him when he gets like that so we let him do it. It is, even now, awailable!Also: PAX preregistration opens today, and since we've had a couple of these now you probably know if it's something you'd like to attend. You save ten dollars over the door price, which is, like, ten bucks. This is money you could put toward some other purpose!(CW)TB
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William Shakespeare, the Warwickshire wordsmith, was paid a posthumous compliment this week, when the British Library made available 21 of his works on the Internet.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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Review Can it appeal to novice and pro alike?
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As part of the new Google Book Search, users can now download full text versions of public domain titles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dante's Inferno, where previously only sections or select chapters were available.
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By CAROLINE INNES  READING Shakespeare is good for the brain, researchers at the University of Liverpool have found.   Scientists discovered reading literary works like Hamlet and Macbeth acts like a work-out for the brain and has lasting beneficial effects on the mind.
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When Sir Laurence Olivier made the Old Vic in London the base of the embryonic National Theatre, he opened with Hamlet. Four decades later, Kevin Spacey, the film star, selected
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Two shows at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., offer a playground for games with genres.
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