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Shakespeare, who laced his plays with big fight scenes, multiple murders, romantic bantering and plenty of slapstick, was an ace screenwriter. Occasionally the movies have realized this and allowed distinguished actors to put one of his plays on film. Problem is that by the time they receive this reward for services rendered, it may as well be a gold watch. When MGM made Romeo and Juliet in 1936, it cast Leslie Howard, 43, and Norma Shearer, 36, as the star-crossed teens. Laurence Olivier brought sepulchral dash to his Hamlet, but at 41 he was a bit too mature...
...full, performing creature," says Mark Dippe, a visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. "But computer-generated creatures can run, hop, do anything." To bone up on dinosaurs, Dippe and his colleagues studied the movements of live elephants, rhinos and giraffes and watched footage of alligators tearing meat apart. Ace animator Steve Williams even kept an iguana in his office -- for research, not company...
...first game, senior ace Christine Carr powered the Crimson to its first win over the Eagles in recent memory with another strong showing on the mound...
...Terrier "ace" Matt Goldstein set the tone by hitting the first two batters he faced, seniors Juan Zarate and Captain Mike Hill. The Crimson went on to score eight runs on six hits in the first inning...
...POWERFUL PHALANX OF REpublican-nominated Justices began to dominate the U.S. Supreme Court and push it sharply to the right, Justice Byron White voted to nudge it in that general direction. Last Friday, after 31 years on the high bench, the moderate-to-conservative Kennedy appointee -- a legal ace, Rhodes scholar and former star football player -- announced that he would step down at the end of the court's current term this summer...