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...other famous trilogies have been given the lavish, can't-get-too-much-of-a-good-thing DVD treatment. Peter Jackson has added 50 "new" minutes to the already capacious 200 of The Return of the King, the final installment of his Lord of the Rings epic (New Line Home Entertainment; $79.92). And a year after The Matrix huffed to its tri-part finale, the Wachowski brothers offer literally dozens of hours of elucidation on a 10-disc DVD set called The Ultimate Matrix Collection (Warner Home Video...
...couple emotionally disconnected from their kids and each other, is playing at only one theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay for the peewee football epic Little Giants, picked this tryout location in part because he thought the conservative burg would appreciate Nino's homespun message about savoring life's simple pleasures, and in part because that's where he found a theater exec willing to give the $3 million film some screen time...
...this suits him to play Howard Hughes, who was an enigma even more than he was a tycoon. A pampered rich kid, Hughes made millions in the aviation and hotel industries. As Hollywood's longest resident outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness...
Living in Boston as a Red Sox fan for the last year has been like riding a rollercoaster of epic proportions. Beginning with Boston’s 6-5, extra-inning ,heartbreaking defeat in Yankee Stadium in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, the age-old rivalry seems to intensify with every month, every week, every day, every hour. One team strikes, and the other team responds, and winning isn’t even as important as crushing the opposition...
Apart from the modern vehicles, J?rn Utzon's original submission to a design competition for an opera house on Sydney's Bennelong Point reads like a Hollywood stage direction for a biblical epic: "The audience is assembled from cars, trains and ferries and led like a festive procession into the respective halls, thanks to the pure staircase solution?" With his winning entry for the Sydney Opera House in 1957, the 38-year-old Dane proved to be as ambitious a choreographer of spectacle as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille. Leaving behind the rush and grind of the city, opera...