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- 491: Neil Simon
- ... to the world of theater. He has experienced a somewhat shaky personal life, but he has found that this only adds to the texture of his work. He began his career working on radio and television, and found that writing for stage was significantly different than his previous experiences writing. His first attempts at theater were rough, but it didnt take him long to achieve excellence. He has also achieved ... the couple remarried, and are living together currently as man and wife. His other relationships have been touchy as well. A bond with his brother was broken upon Neils sudden decision to end his television writing career and move on to script writing. Neil tries to take these energies, both positive and negative, and fuse them into the characters in his plays, and does so with great success. He is ... scripts for local TV and radio stations with his brother, Neil slowly, but surely achieved success. The two gradually progressed into writing sketches for the likes of Phil Shivers, Gary Moore and Jerry Lewis. The television work began to receive wide acclaim, and it was then, with encouragement from his current wife, Joan, Neil broke off his partnership with his brother to begin writing plays for the New York theater ...
- 492: Technology and the Future of Work
- ... With the explosion of leisure activities available, people play more expansively. There are hundreds of movies available on demand at home, virtual-reality games, a growth in the number of channels delivered by direct satellite television, videophones that link faces with voices, interactive television for audience participation, instant access to worldwide entertainment and travel information and interactive telegaming with international partners (Texas Instruments 1996). This paper has considered developments in electronic miniaturisation, robotics, digitisation and information technology with its ... D. 1977 Marx's Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Okonnomie Harpers Press New York. Mitchell, O. 1993 As the Workforce Ages ILR Press New York. Negroponte, N. 1996 Digital Nostradamus - A Bits Future Lateline ABC Television 3 March 1996 Australia. Rosenbrock, H. et al. 1981 New Technology: Society, Employment and Skill Council for Science and Society London. Sargent, M. 1994 The New Sociology for Australians Longman Cheshire Melbourne Australia. Texas ...
- 493: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... and a training ground for hip new entrepreneurs with hi-tech toys to market. Cyberpunk's fast crawl to the surface has included not only pop music (industrial, post industrial, techno pop, etc.), but also television (MTV, Saturday morning cartoons, the late "Max Headroom" series, etc.) and movies ("Total Recall," "Lawnmower Man," the Japanese "Tetsuo" series, etc.). A bi- monthly magazine called Wired, aimed in part at the Cyberpunk set and ... accessing three- dimensionalized data, effecting real-time animation, implementing ISDN and enhancing other electronic information networks, providing scientific visualisations of dynamic systems, developing multimedia software, devising virtual reality interface systems, and linking to digital interactive television . . . from all of these efforts one might cogently argue that Cyberspace is 'now under construction.'" Cyberpunk in TV and Cinema One Film "WAR GAMES" was based on a college student who hacked into the Us ... VJ for a British music-video channel. In order to introduce him, a short film was made.....Entertainment with all the corners filled in . I think that's what a lot of Cyberpunk writing is .......Television is the greatest Cyberpunk invention of all time" . [Steve Roberts (MONDO 2000) 76] Theories One man who has his own theory about the net is Kevin Kelly (exective editor of Wired), he combines ideas ...
- 494: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... team which comprises of well known female marketers and game makers to produce games according to the femenine taste. In that way they strategically targeted to enter into our living room like that of the television (116). "It is a cultural disaster," lamented a successful producer of NOVA, Mr. Jehlen, a popular science documentary and an accomplished writer, "but it does not have to be a negative force. While most of ... that his 6 year old daughter learn basic musical notations by shooting ducks in the electronic key board which is linked with a MIDI and to a software that runs on another computer. Huber testifies, "television -even Sesame Street- holds no interest for her at all. What I see in her experience is the face of learning transformed, almost beyond recognition. This proud father further admonishes, Don't let your children ... H. Kohl, D-Wis., the chairman of the senate Judiciary Subcommittee of Juvenile Justice , and Joseph I. Liebermann, D-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Government Affairs Subcommittee on Regulation and Government Information, looked beyond television, to violence in video game(Browning 691). During a recent (1993) congressional hearing Senator Herbert Kohl announced that if the video game industry does not monitor its contents, congress will. Kohl and other senators ...
- 495: Ecodisc
- ... view the reserve in the middle of winter and see what it looks like in summer. Ecodisc is one of the first interactive programmes, and there are hopes of some day there being interactive broadcast television. This is a breakthrough in visual entertainment, because while television lets you see a place, interactive video will let you explore it. Interactive video is where the viewer decides the plot and characters of a movie, or show. The viewer will basically be able to ... be very good for showing students (or anyone) interested in managing nature reserves, working for national parks or just as an interest thing. Ecodisc is an invention which would greatly help both the computer and television industries as well as the nature and wildlife organisations across the world. Already there are programmes that enable the user to take control of what is happening, and Ecodisc, being one of the first, ...
- 496: A Public Relations Proposal For The American Egg Board
- ... which contains news release, background information, a fact sheet, and a VNR). Press Kits will be sent to school nutritionist, food, health, and lifestyle editors of magazine and newspapers, Food, health, and lifestyle producer of television stations, gyms, food, health, and lifestyle editors of online publications. News releases -- to keep the media informed of the latest news in health and nutrition, e.g., information on good and bad cholesterol, trends in ... 21st Century Nutrition'- WEDO-McKeesport, PA Eat Right Las Vegas' - KORK- Las Vegas, NV Food for thought' - WCCO- Minneapolis, MN Great Recipies with Lynn Paska' - WHRL - Albany, NY Your Health' - USA Radio Network - Dallas, TX Television Family Programs 47 Family Magazine - KWHB - Tulsa, OK American Family - NET network - Washington, DC CTN Today - WCLF - Clearwater, FL Today's Family - KTVT - Ft.Worth, TX Today's Family - WTGL - Orlando, FL Food Getting Healthy ... New York, NY Health Beat - WTVE - Reading, PA Health Call - WLAE - New Orleans, LA Health Matters - Mestar Communication - Allentown, PA Health Today - WMGM - Concord, NJ Healthy Living - Fit TV - Virgina Beach, VA Healthy TV - Healthy Television Production - New York, NY BIBLIOGRAPHY Mogelonsky, Marcia: "Eggs get Rehabilitated" American Demographics, pg. 30, August 1997 O'Neill, Molly: "After the Fall: Humpty Dumpty Regains His Throne" The New York Times, pg. F1, September ...
- 497: Computers and Society
- ... find. Citicorp bank lost $200 million dollars developing a system in the 1980's that gave up to the minute updates on oil prices. Knight-Ridder tried to develop a home shopping network on the television, and lost $50 million. Wang laboratories almost went under when they put all of their resources toward developing imaging technology that no one wanted. Ben & Jerry's ice cream put in an E-mail system ... and out of 200 employees less than 30% used the system. Everything attempted then is currently very common today; on-line services provide stock and commodities quotes, QVC is a home shopping channel on cable television, almost every picture in a magazine has been retouched with imaging technology, and even JRHS has an E-mail system that seems to be valuable. Other corporations have seized computer technology and used it to ... one of the most technological school districts in America. Every student had two computers, one at school and one at home, which contained many brand new teaching programs. The high school had a low powered television station that broadcasted every day. The classes were small and parent involvement was high. Even with all of these wonderful things one-third of the first grade class was below the national average in ...
- 498: Coputers In Modern Society
- ... and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a computerized television. All of these computerized facets of our society help to increase our daily productivity and help us to do whatever it is we need to accomplish in the day. The computer age is upon us ... research, but also a tool for business. Businesses use it to advertise and to try to sell items on-line. These companies set up their own web sites and place the sites' addresses in their television and radio ads. Business use is not limited to advertising and selling, but also to sell and buy from other companies faster than conventional methods. Technology is all around us and there are many practical ... calculate the right amount of gas to air mixture in fuel injected cars. In auto garages, the technology is used to align the wheels and to find electrical system problems. Another example is radio and television, the two most important things in many lives. These devices would not be able to do what they do without the help of mini-computers that decipher the incoming signal. On the digitized radios ...
- 499: Censorship In Mass Media
- ... simply don't have to. No one forces a person to watch tv if they don't like what is on then they can change it. People who don't approve of the content of television are fine. It is just when these peoplee ristrict the rights of others, by censoring books or television or event the internet, that disagreeable to many. The internet for excample is the information super highway of the world. It is the fastest growing form of mainstream media today. It is literally littered with ... governmet is to protect the people not to tell them what is wrong and right, that Is the duty of the parents. Perants must take an active role in their childrens lives and not let television raise their children for them. Parents have the responsibility for themselves and their children they can raised them however they want but it is not their responsibility to raise other peoples children so there ...
- 500: James Earl Jones: A Voice in the Crowd
- ... again cast Jones in a production, this time as Oberon in Midsummer Night=s Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Although his performance was not critically acclaimed, Jones began to get small parts on television with roles on APlayhouse 90,@" The Brighter Day,@A The Catholic Hour,@A Camera Three,@ and the popular APhil Silvers Show@(382). Jones left the cast of The Blacks in the fall of 1961 to ... the Alvin Theatre. Catapulted into the limelight, A..Jones was receiving a standing ovation of the kind that makes Broadway history@(Barnes 58). Since then Jones has gone on to become critically acclaimed film and television actor. He has appeared in over 200 films and even had his own weekly television show called, AGabriel=s Fire.@ Jones has journeyed far from the boy who never spoke a word to anyone who walked on two legs. James Earl Jones has delighted millions of people across the ...
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