In case you hadn't heard, Hasbro has reinvented the wheel, i.e., its popular Clue Game. As NPR reports, the weapons have changed (bye bye lead pipe), as have the characters (Colonel Mustard is now a former football star, and Victor Plum, formerly the professor, was recast as a self-made video game designer and a dot-com billionaire). In response to criticism from purists, game designer Rob Daviau replied, "We wanted something that the mom or dad who's bringing home for the family [could say], 'This is what I remember, and this is what I want to play with my kids...At the same time, we wanted something the kids would feel like it belonged to them." He added, "It plays like Clue, it feels like Clue, but it just feels like Clue that would have been created in the 21st century."
UK crime writer John Mortimer told UK's Guardian newspaper that a glass of Champagne every morning is the secret to a long life. The 85-year-old novelist, had his most celebrated creation, Horace Rumpole, drink 'Chateau Thames Embankment' red wine at his local wine bar.
The Liverpool Philharmonic's 2008-2009 concert season will include the Amadeus Project by trumpeter Guy Barker, an updated version of the Magic Flute reworked into “jazz noir” by thriller writer Robert Ryan.
DC Comics unveiled a new offshoot of its edgy, celebrated Vertigo imprint, Vertigo Crime. The new line will be dedicated to crime titles and launch in 2009 with one offering by Ian Rankin and another by Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets).
And from the department of the Latest in Author Fake-outs, an American book publisher posted an advertisement on Craig's List inviting a team of part-time workers to fake bestselling author signatures and get paid in cash for the privilege.
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