Links Sept. 24, 2006

71, and Still Succeeding in a Young Man’s Game
Early this month the director Mike Newell started production for New Line Cinema on a film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” that will take him from Britain to Brazil and Colombia. At about the same time, another director, Julian Schnabel, began shooting an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s book “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” for Universal Pictures in Lourdes, France.

For N.F.L., Crowd Noise Has Become a Headache
At most big ballgames, noise is good, and more noise is better.

Click Fraud Is Growing on the Web
A year ago, DiamondHarmony.com, an online jewelry store, decided that it had outgrown its sole source of advertising, which was eBay. The company added an elaborate marketing effort on search engines that included a pay-per-click advertising campaign based on keywords and phrases. For its trouble, DiamondHarmony became ensnared in click fraud.

The Ballad of Big Mike
As he drove into Memphis in March 2004, Tom Lemming thought that everything about Michael Oher, including his surname, was odd. He played for a small private school, the Briarcrest Christian School, with no history of generating Division I college football talent. The Briarcrest Christian School team didn’t have many black players either, and Michael Oher was black. But what made Michael Oher especially peculiar was that no one in Memphis had anything to say about him.