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Shinji Mikami thinks game creators peak in their 30s, ‘like me with Resident Evil 4’
Shinji Mikami believes most game creators reach the height of their powers during their 30s, he’s said. The famed Japanese game maker, who is best known as the director of the original Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4, discussed how his creative abilities have changed over his 30-year career in a new documentary exploring the birth of the survival horror genre.
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Peter Frampton: 'I was kept high. If I needed cocaine, he made sure I had it'
Peter Frampton recalls with stinging clarity the moment in 1976 when he realized his career was about to take a perilous turn. “I realized that instead of the front row being a mixture of 50-50, male and female, in the audience, it was all females at the front and the guys are pissed off at the back,” he said. “The guys would jeer at me.”
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Sarah Paulson: ‘If I’m terrified, I feel compelled to do it’
I got a report yesterday saying it was up by…” Sarah Paulson pauses, weighing up whether she wants to reveal the extent of her daily screen time. Then she takes the plunge. “It was nine hours and 52 minutes,” she says, mock-abashed. In a day? She nods. “In a day, yes. Quite terrible. I think it was… doesn’t it break down how much of it was work? There was work on there. So I was doing some of that. But… it’s embarrassing.”
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Kanye West Says It Was All A Part Of God’s Plan For Him To Crash Taylor Swift’s 2009 VMAs Speech
Kanye West revisited that infamous moment at the 2009 VMAs where he interrupted Taylor Swift in the middle of her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. No one could have foreseen the mark that it would leave on both of their legacies, and now Ye made some new claims about the encounter during an interview with Nick Cannon on the latest episode of Cannon’s podcast show, Cannon’s Class.
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Party On with Kid Cudi and Adidas for Their Latest Adventure
Today (August 28, 2020) Bill and Ted Face the Music opens in theaters and VOD (video on-demand). In Face the Music, Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) have a mere 78 minutes to create the song that will save the entire universe.
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Chappelle: 'An Act Of Freedom'
Consider this a warning: Dave Chappelle will probably offend you. But if you've got a thick skin and can take it, you just might find him funny - brilliantly funny. Chappelle has created some of television's most memorable characters. And, incidentally, he's one of the sweetest people we've ever met. He's a devoted family man and all-around nice guy.
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Former iOS Chief Scott Forstall Shares Intriguing Story of His Interview With Steve Jobs at NeXT
Former Apple executive and iOS chief Scott Forstall made a rare public appearance this week at Code.org's virtual Code Break event, and in between classes, Forstall shared the intriguing story of how he was hired by Steve Jobs. Forstall revealed that he had been considering working at Microsoft when he went to interview at NexT, the company started by Jobs after he had left Apple. Forstall described the NexT interview as "intense," involving seventeen people over the course of the day.
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Ethan Hawke on ‘Before Sunrise’: ‘It’s turned into a big part of who I am’
Over the course of his career, Ethan Hawke has played a slew of memorable characters. But it’s the brash Jesse, who famously courted the French student Celine (Julie Delpy) in 1995’s indie romance Before Sunrise, that sticks with him the most. “It’s turned into a big part of who I am,” he said this week in a phone interview from New York City. “I could never have anticipated that.”
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‘Venom’ Actor Riz Ahmed Reveals He Has Lost Two Family Members To COVID-19
Riz Ahmed, the Brit actor whose credits include Venom and HBO series The Night Of, says he has lost two family members to coronavirus. Speaking in a lengthy interview with GQ Hype, Ahmed revealed he has suffered personal bereavement during the pandemic, “I have lost two family members to COVID. I just want to believe their deaths and all the others aren’t for nothing. We gotta step up to reimagine a better future.” Ahmed did not specify who he had lost.
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Macaulay Culkin Is Ready to Answer All the Questions You Have About Him
He is taking off his pants while standing up, trying not to fall over. He’s got his ankle kind of balanced on the opposite knee, and he sometimes loses his balance for a second, the way you and I do when we take off our pants while standing up. He has to hop on one foot. Sometimes he lets out a little whoopwhen he teeters on one foot, the way you and I might, especially.
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Marc Benioff says capitalism, as we know it, is dead
Marc Benioff says "capitalism, as we know it, is dead," and it is time for a new form of capitalism that focuses more on societal good. "That new kind of capitalism that is going to emerge is not the Milton Friedman capitalism, that's just about making money," the billionaire co-CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time Magazine, said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco Thursday evening.
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The one who kept VLC free
Jean-Baptiste Kempf discusses how he initially got involved in VLC and shares his tips for developers who want to improve and get hired.
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower
At the age of 22, when I entered the American intelligence community, I didn't have any politics. Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren't truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles. My mind was a mash-up of the values I was raised with and the ideals I encountered online.
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YouTube: 'We don't take you down the rabbit hole'
In his first interview, YouTube's UK managing director defends the platform's algorithms.
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Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’
The actor hasn’t stood still since Game of Thrones ended. There’s her short film, her work with refugees – and there’s always another tattoo… Lena Headey has been an actor for the better part of three decades, but the experience has not eased the doubt she has in her abilities. And even near-universal praise of the kind she received for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones doesn’t do the trick.
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'Chernobyl' Creator Craig Mazin on Jumping from Comedies to a Real-Life Horror Show
From creator/writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck, the five-part HBO mini-series Chernobyl explores how the 1986 nuclear accident become one of the worst human-made catastrophes in history. After the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union suffered a massive explosion that released radioactive material across Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe, countless brave men and women sacrificed their own lives, both knowingly and unknowingly, in an attempt to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
Avi Loeb discusses why we need to consider the possibility that the object was sent by aliens, the dangers of unscientific speculation, and what belief in an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has in common with faith in God.
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The decline of trust in science "terrifies" former MIT president Susan Hockfield
If we don’t trust scientists to be experts in their fields, Hockfield says on the latest episode of Recode Decode, "we have no way of making it into the future."
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Tech billionaires who donate millions are just "bribing society at large," Anand Giridharadas says
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other billionaires have figured out a pretty sweet deal, Anand Giridharadas says: They make gigantic piles of money, and have tricked politicians and the media into giving them an exceptionally loud voice in policy discussions. What’s their secret? Just give away a little bit of that money through philanthropic organizations that they control.
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Cheryl Strayed Was $85,000 in Debt When Her Memoir Wild Got Published
Dollar figures can be misleading. That was the disheartening lesson learned by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild, in 2003 with her debut novel, Torch. Despite receiving a sizable-seeming advance for the book, she remained deeply in debt for years — even as Wild, her subsequent memoir, landed on the best-seller list, Strayed and her husband, documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, struggled to pay the rent.
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