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...Spain, they're cutting down vast forests in order to build the Armada, with which they intend to impose that country's grim Catholic will on Protestant England. In a glum castle, Mary Queen of Scots schemes to replace her cousin Elizabeth on the English throne - if, of course, she can avoid the death sentence everyone is urging the Virgin Queen to impose on her. In Whitehall, Walter Raleigh is spreading his coat over the mythical puddle so his sovereign will not dampen her dainty feet as she strolls toward her distinguished destiny. Meantime, spies and assassins scuttle through...
...Elizabeth: The Golden Age? Better, perhaps, to call this Elizabeth: The Frenzied Years - especially since the film's director, Shekhar Kapur, suffers from an advanced case of restless camera syndrome. Tracking shots, twisting boom shots, placements that are either radically high or low - they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material. And why should he? The statecraft of 400 years ago is not the stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing...
...wait, it gets worse. As the computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director...
...outrageous for Elizabeth Edwards to attack Hillary Clinton's electability. After all, the Clintons have a long track record of winning tough elections by comfortable margins. John Edwards wasn't even re-elected as Senator in North Carolina. Reba Shimansky, NEW YORK CITY...
...three-game winning streak. The Big Red held two one-goal leads during the 71 minutes of play but was finally put to rest after a textbook penalty corner executed by Harvard’s co-captains. The game-winning goal was assisted by a push from sophomore Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon to co-captain Jana Berglund, who stopped and set the ball for the shot by fellow co-captain Devon Shapiro. “It’s exciting to win in overtime,” coach Sue Caples said. “It’s like a walk...