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And this is one of the reasons we are moving to Microsoft for our email and file storage. I have no idea why the 4th amendment only applies to Microsoft, not to Google, but so be it.

If you're worried about the government reading your emails, why risk using a USA company at all? Use a company that has no USA presence at all. Or better, roll your own offshore and control your own encryption keys.

Of course according to Trump, aliens are not people. I wonder whether he can find a corrupt judge to support that argument.

He's right there... aliens aren't always people, sometimes they are lizards, sometimes they are amorphous blobs

if he WERE capable of changing sexes, wouldnt it be a 50% chance?

in case you didnt know, boy/girl for childbirth is NOT 50%. each time you have one or the other, your chances of having one of that sex again is much higher. by the time you have 4 boys, your chances of having another boy is like 85 or 90%.

That's actually part of my point. The real world comparison is meant to point out that the more brothers you have and the more sons you have, the more likely you are to have more sons. Hence, the feasibility of a science fiction Time Lord having a male regeneration streak, while still leaving the chance for a female regeneration.

The lead writer Steven Moffat actually commented on this exact topic. "It is a part of Time Lord lore that it can happen. Who knows, the more often it is talked about the more likely it is to happen some day.” Link

So ideally who would like to see as the next Doctor?

For me it would be Stephen Fry.

They been either joking or hinting that it could be female.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/tv/38162977/the-next-doctor-who-star-could-be-a-woman-and-it-should-be?page=all

One of the writers, Steven Moffat, let out a teaser that it could be a female.

No, he has a really large display: http://cdn-media.hollywood.com/images/l/1984-netflix-watch-instantly.jpg

The US Military is too afraid that we'll send The Wiggles there permanently to even consider an invasion.

They've stopped worrying about The Wiggles Threat ever since the Three Original Cast announced they're leaving.

I know that was in jest, but oddly when I googled them I found this:
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Las_Vegas_Legend_Roy_Horn_Mauled_by_Tiger/1729891

Famed Las Vegas magician Roy Horn, half of Las Vegas' legendary Siegfried and Roy, was savagely mauled by a 600-pound, 7-year-old, male white tiger during a performance Friday night at the Mirage hotel-casino, Reuters reports. ...
Penn Jillette, of the magic act Penn & Teller, was among those who have visited the hospital in past 24 hours to show support. "They devised this bigger than life thing," Jillette said. "His job, he's the best at it there ever was. You could never read the danger in his face."

So, I guess they were close?

Ah, so a computer program, song, or book is an "idea". OK. You don't need anything other than your head to have an idea, so you don't need a computer to share a program or song, yes?

To have an idea, no. To share an idea I might need language, or paper and pencil or even a whole movie to adequately do it.

I am supposed to believe a poll of "1,000 16- to 50-year-olds with internet access" commissioned by a politically biased group without knowing how the poll participants were chosen nor the questions asked? Would you accept a poll commissioned by RIAA with blind faith?

OK. A study by the University of Amsterdam:
http://www.ivir.nl/publications/vaneijk/Communications&Strategies_2010.pdf
By the Business School of Norway: http://www.bi.no/Content/Article____74866.aspx
By the Canadian Department of Industy:
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/en/h_ip01456e.html

All biased.

ZeroPaid as a source? Really? Do you have access to any non-biased sources? No? Didn't think so, you closed-minded fuck.

Zeropaid is just the guy who made an article from MPAA own number. Who could have clicked on their source, on Hollywood.com:
http://images.hollywood.com/site/HISTORICAL_AND_YTD_BOX_OFFICE_2009.pdf

You are hoisted on your own petard, dumbass.

No, Mr, I didn't. The total income is still greater. If it comes from recorded or live, I don't really care. It still means the increase on file sharing is not hurting artists.

Tell, shithead, do you still wear the clothes you did 15 years ago? Did you alter them yourself or take them to a tailor to be modified? Or, did you BUY NEW ONES? Well, what was it, asshole?

So what you are saying is that, even when people have the possibility of fixing their stuff, they buy new?
Well, then by that argument open sourcing is not that bad.

To answer your question, yes, I paid for tailors to fix my clothes, and yes I have 10+ year old clothes I still use. Not 15, since I've grew somewhat since I was 10.

Your analogy has the car as the software, not the computer. Now, if you don't know what you have already said, maybe you should shut the fuck up. Or, is it that you are trying to change your argument on the fly?

Where do you see the word computer on my analogy? Just because you're unable to apply it to software doesn't mean it wasn't my intent.

Wikipedia is software? No, it is a website whose articles are often biased and/or wrong.

Wikipedia is software, yes. You can download it here. Whether is on web format or a rich client is irrelevant.

Android and WebOS are both Linux, are operating systems, and are almost exclusively run on proprietary hardware where loading a new OS is difficult at best. The same goes for all those embedded Linux devices, in which the user almost never interacts with the OS, but are in fact appliances.

So? It's still open source being run by millions of people.

So, there are over 500,000 FLOSS FAILURES, including Linux on the desktop, for every moderate success. Tell me, where is OOo in your list? How about GNUCash? How about GIMP? Oh, wait, none of those are really successes. Most of the users for GIMP would prefer to use Photoshop. Even FLOSS supporters don't like GNUCash. All I ever hear about OOo is how slow it is and how it has crappy compatibility with MS Office.

Should I list the millions of c

The article is about Child Porn, NOT GGW

For someone to have pictures to look at, someone had to take those pictures. To me, both parties victimized the child and are not equally sick, but very close.

Why yes, he certainly did say that.

Naomi Campbell reference... http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3488465

I've purchased both of the current albums and I think you understand the facts in this case, yet you appear to side with the person wishing to restrict it's use, while touting fair use of a common phrase. The phrase was in common usage long before Steinman decide to co write and co produce two albums named with this phrase. My Banana bike jumped a plywood and cinder block constructed ramp in my cousins backyard "Like a Bat out of Hell" twenty years before either album was released.
Aday is also an accomplished actor:
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/id/385892
And stared in one of every true geeks favorite movies "Roadie"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081433/
In which he played a geek who could fix anything with damned near nothing. In the movie aliens landed and asked him to fix their space ship.
He is not a "Back Street Boys" boy toy and is hardly a singing sensation, except to those who've followed his work. I'll explain: at any party remove whatever is currently playing and insert any "Bat out of Hell" CD and watch what happens. If you force the party to listen to the CD, all but about ten people will eventually leave. Those ten are your real friends and soul mates.

"SILENT HILL worked for me because of the confidence and command of director Christophe Gans. I'm not familiar with the source material at all, so I'm not going to discuss it as an adaptation, except in the broadest terms. I can't tell you how faithful it is to the already-established mythology of the various SILENT HILL games, but I can tell you that there are certain touches in the way the film's put together that seem like a sly nod to the basic experience of gaming. ...

Roger Ebert seemed to find the film's explanations baffling even as he was impressed by it technically. I'm not sure why this would confuse anyone... basically it boils down to a vengeful spirit looking for payback against the town that did it harm... but I also think the answers are far less important than the way the questions are presented. For example... I have no idea what the fuck Pyramid Head is, or how he's connected to the Demon, or what purpose he serves aside from freaking my shit out, and frankly, I don't care. He's one of the most striking images I've seen in a horror film in recent memory, and both of his big scenes are exhilarating. If you're tired of teenagers in danger and you're tired of remakes of

Well, downtown is a big area... and the nearest theater showing Serenity is not downtown. Kind of strange, really - we tend to get a very wide selection here! (There is an AMC 30 screen theater two blocks from my house, and a Sony 8 screen 4 blocks away, and 2 smaller (4 screen and less) theaters about 8 blocks away...)

Of course, if you go far enough you can find one. But compare this list with this one.

Amazing!

Well, downtown is a big area... and the nearest theater showing Serenity is not downtown. Kind of strange, really - we tend to get a very wide selection here! (There is an AMC 30 screen theater two blocks from my house, and a Sony 8 screen 4 blocks away, and 2 smaller (4 screen and less) theaters about 8 blocks away...)

Of course, if you go far enough you can find one. But compare this list with this one.

Amazing!

Solution to problem one. Also to not show a bias

I'm so glad someone decided to finally put together a service that lets me look up movie times in my area!

Thank GOD Google is here to push the envelope and bring us new, exciting features!!

WHAT NEXT?! WILL THEY LET US BUY MOVIE TICKETS OVER THE WEB TOO? LOL!

Since flash based sites are annoying for a variety of reasons (read about them in other posts) I've taken to using the mobile versions of websites. For instance Hollywood.com is a useful site for finding movie showtimes but it's heavily flash/shockwave based and very annoying to view. So I use their version for mobile devices which has the information I actually care about (movie locations and showtimes) without all the extra fluff. There's nothing preventing you from viewing these on a regular browser and they are MUCH faster. True, they don't have all the features of the regular sites but if you just need the basics they are great. These sites also will help those of people who constantly whine about how bloated everything is. (you know who you are...)

Some others include:
Amazon.com
American Airlines
Slashdot

Since flash based sites are annoying for a variety of reasons (read about them in other posts) I've taken to using the mobile versions of websites. For instance Hollywood.com is a useful site for finding movie showtimes but it's heavily flash/shockwave based and very annoying to view. So I use their version for mobile devices which has the information I actually care about (movie locations and showtimes) without all the extra fluff. There's nothing preventing you from viewing these on a regular browser and they are MUCH faster. True, they don't have all the features of the regular sites but if you just need the basics they are great. These sites also will help those of people who constantly whine about how bloated everything is. (you know who you are...)

Some others include:
Amazon.com
American Airlines
Slashdot

In After the Sunset.

trademarked product ObIncrediblesRef.

It's already "in the works" to have Fahrenheit on pay-per-view on election eve. It was my understanding the MM was going to try and get this on as many stations as possible, not just PPV, but I haven't found any reports saying his efforts succeeded.

He won't be eligible for an Oscar under the documentary category, but I guess he doesn't care.

--trb

If I recall correctly, Sony got nailed for using a fake critic by the name of David Manning to doctor favorable reviews for their just released movies

It would not surprise me if authors were INDEED promoting their own works courtesy of public forums like amazon and the like.

I don't think we should be promoting vigilantism so studio bigwigs can rake in huge salaries. I especially object to this law because it's based on the fallacious belief that recordings made in movie theaters are the source of most illegal copies. After all, didn't the MPAA try to ban all screeners because of piracy? And don't forget about the study which said that 77% of all pirated movies came from industry insiders.

So... why are we encouraging citizens to possibly harrass or harm others for something that is not the primary culprit in economic losses?

Can I make a citizen's arrest of tech CEOs who outsource jobs?

Notable is Jackson's remuneration for King Kong: $20M + 20% of gross. It upset a few industry people as it's unusally large in terms of up front payment for that level of gross points. Here's a report: http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/17247 07.

I'm not sure what you mean by saying "it's a Taiwanese movie". It was shot mostly in China, the director, Ang Lee was born in Taiwan but he's been around the world pretty much, the Wu Xia genre is equally popular in Taiwan and China, James Schamus is from California, Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian, Chow Yun Fat is from Hong Kong, Ziyi Zhang was born in Beijing, Chen Chang was indeed born in Taiwan but if you look at his filmogrpahy you'll notice it's pretty international too. So there.

The documentary Revolution OS explores the human side of the open source and free software movements, illuminating the behind-the-scenes story of the hackers and programmers rebelling against the corporate machine.

This 90-minute film begins with Richard Stallman's quest to create a free operating system. It then follows the movement through its two-decades-long evolution in interviews with Stallman, Linus Torvalds (creator of the open-source operating system Linux), Eric Raymond (author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar), Bruce Perens (author of the Open Source Definition), Brian Behlendorf (leader of the Apache Web server project), Michael Tiemann (founder of the first open source company) and Larry Augustin (founder of VA Linux Systems). Revolution OS also depicts the culture of the open source movement by documenting the Installfest parties where people can bring their computers to get free, expert Linux tech support; and the Refund Day protest marches, where Linux users demand reimbursement of the extra fees that get tacked onto the purchase price of new computers for pre-installed Microsoft applications.

Didn't even stop to think about the new Sinbad movie from Dreamworks either. Or IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) Sorry FYI

Linux Storms Hollywood

Linux in Hollywood a Star is Born

...

Everybody who really understands the basics of General Relativity and Special Relativity knows why FTL travel and "subspace" communication can't happen.

Well, there's the problem, really. It's supposed to be entertainment. Presumably, I should be entertained. Unfortunately, many movies think that they can prop up terrible scripts and bad acting with CG imagery--that also happens to violate the laws of physics. I (and probably many other /.ers) am willing to forgive quite a few science lapses...if the rest of the movie isn't equally unforgivably bad. Take The Core. Please. Sure, the science is dismal, but so is the rest of the movie.

Read some good science fiction. A reasonable rule of thumb is that the author should be permitted (at most) one 'impossible' technique, technology, or concept. Exploring the ramifications of such 'impossibilities'--when done well--can be both thought-provoking and genuinely entertaining.

With close to a $200 million take (article at hollywood.com), have people around the world missed the point of this film?? Nimom, kidnapped by humans and presumably sold in a store, spends most of the movie desperately trying to flee human confinment. And yet people are flocking in droves to stores to pick up Nimo's cousin, or uncle or settling for a "second best" puffer fish or seahorse if the clown fish are sold out. I don't get it!

What did everyone forget Number 5"?

Are you sure about that one? This movie focuses on the executives, not the developers.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the movie 'Revolution OS'?

Dolemite

Hollywood.com's story

Bizjournal.com's story

Uemedia.com's story

Anyway, it IS going to (still) be called Lucasfilm Ltd.

If you haven't seen Equilibrium yet (or have no idea what I'm talking about), do yourself a favor and go take a look.

Reason I mention it in this thread is that some of the influences are the same, most people who liked The Matrix will like this, and it's too good a movie to die this quickly. I saw it last Thursday, and was astounded by it. Sure, there are a lot of cool fight scenes, but it's also a good movie, doing certain things you didn't expect (several bits of foreshadowing are slick), has an actual story, good acting, good dialog, makes you think, and overall is a great movie.

Go see it.

While not exactly a geek site, I thought the French tank museum (french language only -> Musee des Blindes or another opinion) in Saumur was tres kewl.
General George S. Patton(the movie) studied at the Cavalry Academy in Saumur.

Perhaps this is just a sneaky way for Britney to give her boyfriend a non-engagement present, because all the other boy-band members are doing it?

Remaining Anonymous so that my friends don't know that I searched the web for Britney Spears.

- AC

Perhaps this is just a sneaky way for Britney to give her boyfriend a non-engagement present, because all the other boy-band members are doing it?

Remaining Anonymous so that my friends don't know that I searched the web for Britney Spears.

- AC

There's a heavy western/civil war feel (supposedly it's all inspired by The Killer Angels and Stagecoach), but it's not just old adventure stories in SF drag (anyone notice the similarity between Balance of Terror and The Enemy Below?). It's something new and original, and I'm looking forward to it a lot more than I ever did a Farscape ep.

This fan site has more info than does the official site, including a lot of good stills.

If she turns into the METEOR GIRL Hollywood will probably sue her for copyright violation.

Anyone saw Until the End of the World, starring William Hurt as a zombie addicted to his own dreams?

A) the number of screens the movie was shown on

That's (at least partially) George Lucas' fault. He wouldn't let theatres without "high-quality" screens play the movie. (I think I read somewhere that he was demanding THX-certified sound systems).

Spider-Man did it in three days without a mid-night opening.

Here's a snippet from hollywood.com: 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm's PG rated franchise installment Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones exploded in first place with an ESTIMATED $86.15 million at 3,161 theaters ($27,254 per theater).

After opening to $30,141,417 for Wednesday midnight screenings and Thursday, its four day cume is approximately $116.29 million. By comparison, Spider-Man's record setting opening was $114.8 million for a normal three day weekend (May 3-5).

Star Wars' average per theater was the highest for any film playing this weekend.

Directed by George Lucas, it stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen.

"That's the third best three day regular weekend opening ever after Spider-Man's $114 million and $90 million for Harry Potter," Fox distribution president Bruce Snyder said Sunday morning.

"It's the second fastest to $100 million. Of course, Spider-Man did it in three days and this is four. The previous record was Star Wars: Episode I in five days. It opened on a Wednesday (May 19, 1999). Its five day number was $105.659 million. So we've kind of blown past that in four days with $116.291 million on this one. It's just terrific and we're delighted."

Looking back at Episode I -- The Phantom Menace, Snyder noted, "Its Wednesday, the opening day, was $28.5 million. That was the high water mark for the run. The next best day was $24.4 million on Saturday (of weekend one). In this case, we opened to $30.1 million, went to $25.2 million on Friday and Saturday looks like $32.25 million, so it's actually above the opening day and the opening day, remember, had the Midnight shows (from Wednesday) folded in. So this is really a spectacular performance."

Phantom Menace wound up grossing $431.1 million in domestic theaters. Its worldwide total (domestic plus international) was $923 million. Asked about reports that Clones' Wednesday midnight shows had ticket sales of approximately $6 million, Snyder replied, "Something in that area. It depends on how they got folded into (the total for Thursday), but I think that's a fair estimate."

Here's the breakdown of box office report

Now, can anyone trace ol' Jack's family tree...?

Sure. As you stated in a previous reply, it's all about the Google search. Mine was "free genealogy".

I found the site awt.ancestry.com . The previous link goes directly to Jack Valenti's info page.

Did you know he's married to Mary Margaret Wiley , who was President Lyndon Johnson's secretary? She may have provided some important connections in the RIAA's formative years.

Then I clicked on "Trees". To get his family tree, I had to provide birth date and place, so another Google search ("jack valenti biography born") found the following biography with all I needed (Born: September 5, 1921; Birth Place: Houston, Texas).

Also from that bio page, we learn the following:

After serving as a bomber pilot in World War II, he opened Weekley & Valenti Advertising in 1952 and later became a top aide to fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1966, President Johnson appointed Valenti as the third president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association, a post he has held ever since.

So my assumption was slightly off; he most likely met his wife while working with Johnson.

Plugging the data into the tree search page , I am frustrated to find that this is to create your own family tree, not to provide one for you based on your initial person.

So I clicked on the "Ancestry Family Tree" and got here . This is a program you need to download (closed source, spyware leaps to mind) but I'm running Ad-Aware so I boldly go.

I had to register to download, so I used a throwaway Hotmail account. (It's really tough to create a unique username!)

It's a 4.5 MB download and appears to be an ActiveX control; waiting for it to finish (slow modem in Brazil).

Well that was entirely too frustrating; the program is also for creating a family tree, not for automatically generating one.

I tried a couple other sites and had my hopes dashed for finding a quick solution. I spent a good bit of time on this (thinking it would be a bit easier) so I'm posting this anyway; even though it's not as Informative as I would have liked, it could at least be considered Cautionary. ;-)

Of course, if anyone knows how to do this, please post! Would be neat to find potential "influences" (actually, I already found one -- a former president).

Good lord - if this gets The Guardian, Family Law, First Monday, Everbody Loves Raymond, Baby Bob and the other crap shows off the air, more power to you.

I take it you're not a fan of Les Moonves.

when i first saw the picture, i thought it was a giant football field with goalposts and everything... good thing they have sense.

now, what i want to know is, if it's SO good at monitoring ice flows and mud slides, can it monitor THE BLOB?!?!?!?!?

-j

I notice that the ACLU's web site still doesn't have any mention of the case since I posted about this last time.

At the time, several people posted that they were going to submit requests to the ACLU's submission page. Did anyone get any response?

I still cynically believe that the ACLU will never pay attention to this case because they don't want to piss off their gravy train, but I would interested to hear if anyone got a response.

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Yes, I read the reference. Then I explained to you how AvantGo works. Now I will give you some URLs, as per your request, to show you that AvantGo does not fragment the web. All the conduit does is cache HTML pages and store them on your device. You might want to quit believing everything you read. That guy from your link didn't know what he was talking about and neither do you.

http://avantgo.hollywood.com/
http://www.pdalive.com/avantgo/
http://avantgo.10best.com/
http://www.women.com/avantgo/horoscopes/
http://www.all-legends.com/avantgo/
http://www.mapquest.com/avantgo/

Anything else you'd like to add?
wish
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I have tried the demo by Jamie (go to Hollywood, etc.) and then a window opens with many frames. All contain "ERROR 205 -- DNS name lookup failure. Please contact your system administrator." from the proxy but for http:/ /www.securityspace.com%2fexploit%2fexploit_1e.html %3fa=.hollywood.com/ that has a Hollywood.com window saying "That user doesn't exist".

When I tried the box and button on Securi ty space, I get "www.slashdot.org's cookie is:".

I run IE 4.0 in NT and have Junkbuster set to allow cookies only to sites I trust.
I also have a company proxy to access the web.

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There is something here that bothers me. No, it is not the fact that people are doing real-time adverts, nor is it the fact that we can now do real-time manipulation[0]. The thing that is bothering me, actually, is the response to this issue.

You see, this is nothing new. Every since the first monkey[1] picked up a bone and thought to itself, "tool." We have had trickery, backstabbing, conning, and deception. Humanity suffers from an incredible amount of want, the want of more possessions. Humanity will do just about anything, including defacing his/her personal reputation and good worth, simply for a few more possessions. Not all is bad of course, ever since deception, we had the ones seeking out the deceptors and uncovering them for what they are.

It has been a game of tag since day one. What we are seeing now is the very evident cycle where the greedy have found ways to circumvent what used to be an unstoppable barrier of truth: Namely, photographs and the moving picture. For years these two technologies bared life for what it really was, and could even be used as evidence in courts of law.

What we are seeing is essentially no different than a gang of crackers circumventing new software bugs, and the developers coming up with new patches to fix the bugs, albeit at a much slower pace. We are already to the point where everybody looks twice at a picture. Simply everything is run through a computer now, and sometimes it is getting very tricky to spot the evidence of computer tampering[2]. Now we just need to readjust to the fact that video, even live video, is becomming just as vulnerable to dupery as a pre-shot film. Nobody has placed truth in pre-shot film for a very long time now[3], and soon people won't place so much validity in live film.

This isn't a bad thing, nor is it a good thing, it simply is the way things are. We had, for about 60 or 70 years, a very good medium for 'prooving' things. Before that there was just paintings, sketches, and word of mouth. We may have to go back to that, we may come up with something new and revolutionary, who knows! Times change, people just need to realize that change is not evil.

With all of that being said, I'm going to go back a tad and state my opinion. I think this is excellent news. The ability to manipulate moving pictures in real time brings us one step closer to an entirely new, and interactive form of entertainment. Sure, it will bring along with it the sleazy car salesmen and whatnot...as do all new technologies. I prefer to look at how such developments will aid humanity instead of dwelling on the abuse, the abuse can be ignored. Turn off your television and do something constructive for a change[4]. It isn't that difficult.

.:. Starface
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[0] There seems to be two arguments going on. One against advertising in general which is a tad bizarre if you ask me, the other is pro/con real-time manipulation.
[1] Or, perfect, wonderfully created being. Whatever your cup of tea is.
[2] I worked at a job where it was my description to 'fix' photographs. I know the tricks of the trade, there are alot of adverts and photos out there that are tampered.
[3] See here, for an excellent demonstration of that.
[4] Try literature and a cup of Earl Grey.

And the answer is: (yep, you guessed it):
It's a song from "The Hunt for Red October" soundtrack. A Hollywood movie based on Tom Clancy novel (which is, in turn, inspired by a real event).

And the song is not Soviet or Russian, it's a "Hymn to the Red October", music by Basil Poledouris. More info at t his link.

(I must admit, that it *IS* a clever fake... I thought it's Soviet for the longest time, and I used to have quite a bit of knowlege of Soviet war music).

-Cheers,
Daniel

Here's one of them:

http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/celebrities/mbe rgman/sound/southpark/5.ram
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Patrick Doyle

http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/celebrities/mbe rgman/html/sound.html

The last one (at the bottom) is a bit eerie in light of recent events.
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Patrick Doyle