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1. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
   In all of the essential ways, Resident Evil 3 Nemesis plays exactly like Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2. The movement formula is still intact, and it's still a good one. If you were hoping for some entirely new movement scheme, this ain't it. But there are exceptions. Players control their character through wonderfully detailed prerendered backgrounds by using the analog or Dpad, pressing R1 and X to shoot, O to access the menu, Triangle to cancel, Square and Dpad to run, plus a couple of new features, which are little but much appreciated. Now players can instantly access the maps by touching L2. The map is still accessible via the menu system, too, if you want to get to it that way, and it's quick, moveable and much more versatile as a tool than ever before.
2. Resident Evil 0 -- Game Guide
   In Japan, where Resident Evil 2 was titled Biohazard 2, the game was released a week after the North American release. The game was made easier for the Japanese market with changes in item and enemy placement, increased firepower for weapons and the auto-aiming feature turned on by default.
3. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis -- Jill Valentine
   In Resident Evil 3 Nemesis players begin as 23 year-old Jill Valentine, a member of S.T.A.R.S. as she is packing to leave for Europe. Caught in Raccoon City, a town crawling with flesh eating zombies, Jill must once again rely on cunning and brute force to escape. Before she gets out of town, Jill becomes severely injured and is knocked unconscious. With the help of Carlos Oliveira, a 21-year old hot-blooded, tough guy from South America and one of the mercenaries Jill meets through her struggle to escape, players must search for a cure to save Jill from impending doom.
4. Resident Evil 2
   Like the previous game in the series, Resident Evil 2 is a 3D action-adventure using three-dimensional polygon characters over two-dimensional pre-rendered backgrounds, with the action viewed through a variety of cinematic fixed camera angles in each room. Just like the original Resident Evil, players can choose to play as one of two possible characters. Each character goes through the same initial scenario, but with differences in the type of weaponry they find and the people they meet along the way. Unlike the original Resident Evil, beating the game for the first time unlocks a second scenario to be played with the character you didn't choose, with all new locations, maps, enemies, and a longer more climactic ending. Your actions in the first scenario can ... affect the outcome of certain events in the second scenario. Additionally ammo and healing items are more plentiful than in the original game, although you still aren't given enough bullets to kill every enemy you meet.
5. Dean Martin -- Las Vegas
   When Dean Martin died on Christmas Day 1995, an era died with him. He was the last of the great lounge performers. His easygoing insouciance and roguish charm are now back in fashion. This set, and its three companion volumes, comprise absolutely everything that Dean Martin recorded. An incredible legacy from the most incredible entertainer.
6. Toy Story 2 (1999) -- Buzz Lightyear
   TOY STORY 2 is the expected treat. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, back as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, the top toys in a roomful of play- things-that-play-with-themselves. Other returning voices-and-char- acters include John Ratzenberg's Hamm, Wallace Shawn's dino, Don Rickle's now-married Mr. Potato Head, and Jim Varney's Slinky Dog. The plot: the aforementioned four join Buzz Boy on a rescue mis- sion after Woody is doll-napped by a greedy toy collector (fitting- ly voiced by Wayne Knight). The plot thickener: Woody learns that he's a vintage doll from the fifties after meeting three other toys from that era: Joan Cusack's cowgirl, Kelsey Grammer's prospector (mint-in-box), and a silent-but-spry pony name of Bullseye. And so, while the wee rescuers risk life and molded plastic limb, the pull-string cowboy has his *own* battle to fight: stay and be a "star" forever, or return to the kid that'll love him until he out- grows him?
7. Dinosaur (Movie) -- Animation
   The first section, Development, houses a number of reels from the years before Dinosaur came to theaters. These reels establish that the visuals in the film could be pulled off. First is "Proof of Concept Test, March 1996" a 2-minute clip with some pretty much complete animation (in Cinemascope) and a bit of storyboards depicting a scene between what would become Aladar and Zini. While it's not as refined as the final product, it certainly seems they had most of the technology down there. "Live Action Backplate Test" from October 1996 is brief (22 seconds) showing a couple of fraternal dinosaurs walking through impressive live action scenery. Next, the "Early Presentation Reel", dated December 1996, shows off mostly conceptual artwork and bit of animated composites to preview what the film might look like.
8. Benito Mussolini -- Fighting Fascists
   The stadium that Benito Mussolini ordered built in the 1930s is just about ready to host opening and closing ceremonies for the Torino Winter Olympics, after a $35.4 million renovation. The fascist-era Stadio Comunale has been renamed Stadio Olimpico for the Feb. 10-26 games.
9. Martin Scorsese -- De Niro
   In The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, an impressive cast of contributors explores the complex themes and philosophical underpinnings of Martin Scorsese's films. One of the most significant filmmakers in the history of American cinema, Scorsese is the creative force behind films such as GoodFellas, Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Aviator, and The Age of Innocence. The contributing authors use Scorsese's films as vehicles for exploration of philosophical concepts such as friendship and egoism, vigilantism, libertarianism, Buddhist ethics, desire and self-restraint, madness, the criminal mind, beatitude and unhappiness, and the absurd.
10. David Lynch -- Director David Lynch
    David Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American independent film director. His movies include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive. He was ... responsible for a television series called Twin Peaks, his overall most famous work. Eraserhead, his first movie , is still his most famous theatrical film. It was recently deemed socially important by the United States Library of Congress. He has done much work with Jack Nance, who has appeared in all but two of his movies.

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