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...Nightmare on Elm Street had six, the two franchise villains faced off in Freddy vs. Jason, and James Bond has saved the world in 23 hits since 1962. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter series is headed for a Proustian seven. The first four film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's epic rank fourth, ninth, 10th and 17th on the all-time box-office list. The fifth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be calling all wizards on July...
...called himself the Hardest Working Man in Show Business wasn?t kidding. In a nonstop one-hour show Brown did spray his energy around like ballplayers with champagne after the big win. Further, he extended this sense of urgency to the entire show. Elvis was attitude, J.B. was epic drama. Other singers had their little 2min. narratives of sexual depression or release; Brown?s show was a kind of musical play, ending with the (literally) show-stopping ?Please Please Please? - his death and resurrection as a comic-opera Calvary. The life story of a man was enacted in song...
...plus soldiers who defended the island against the ferocious American assault were ordered to die rather than surrender, and most did. It's a tragic epic that director Clint Eastwood personifies by focusing mainly on two stories: the dutiful, civilized general (Ken Watanabe) and a common soldier (Kazunari Ninomiya) who is clumsily, almost comically, determined to live. The dialogue is in Japanese, but this account of war madness --intense and compassionate--carries a universal and heart-breaking message...
...advice so good it seems like magic. For the fictional Aburiria, think Africa. In Wizard of the Crow, Kenyan author Ngugi draws a folkloric tale out of the continent crippled by inequality, corruption and aids. But he sees the funny side, too. Wizard of the Crow is an epic farce, poking fun at Aburiria's idiotocracy as misunderstandings and mistaken identities throw its characters into one ridiculous adventure after another. All written in the lyrical style of a master storyteller, perfect for reading - and laughing - aloud. - By Jumana Farouky 4. Seamus Heaney, District and Circle...
...HAMPTON SIDES, BLOOD AND THUNDER: AN EPIC OF THE AMERICAN WEST