And when she started to write seriously about movies, much later, it was her passion for the high-art canon that helped set her bearings.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

Disney has brought in Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi to help write the new movies.

FORBES: Disney Going All In On 'Star Wars' With Boba Fett And Han Solo Spin-Offs

Payback WE DUBBED THEM the "idea moguls" last fall -- the bright young people who generate the ideas and write the scripts for movies and TV shows (Sept.21, 1998).

FORBES: Fillow-Through

How can we write without the old serious publications, make movies without risk-taking Hollywood producers, live without cheap urban housing, discover art without the underground, make a career without the circulation-desk jobs?

NEWYORKER: What She Said

Mossberg will often be the first critic to get an advance copy of an Apple product, as in March, when he was the first to receive and write about Apple TV, which allows downloaded movies and programs to be viewed on wide-screen TV sets.

NEWYORKER: Critical Mass

NextGuide automatically finds the TV shows and movies your friends watch, without having to remember things or write them down.

ENGADGET: NextGuide for iPad intends to get you to stop using the grid guide