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...will receive what he always wanted in life: American citizenship. Marine Lance Corporal Jose Guti?rrez was shot in the chest as his unit took heavy fire in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. Everyone believed he was 22. But his true age is part of a story of epic persistence that took him from Guatemala to Los Angeles, from the life of an orphan to the life of a Marine...
...about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning predator but a wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Last night, when Polanski's name was announced, cheers could be heard. Scorsese rose in acclaim. A camera caught Nicholson, applauding robustly. Whatever jokes might have occurred to Martin...
...year and six days after Harvard upset the Big Red in their double-overtime epic at Lake Placid’s historic 1980 Olympic Rink, the Crimson appeared headed for another upset of No. 2 Cornell, leading 2-1 with under a minute to play...
...shut out Brown, 2-0, in Friday night’s semifinal round before 6,936 at Pepsi Arena, setting up a rematch between the archrivals for the ECAC championship at 7 p.m. Saturday night, one year and six days after Harvard’s epic, double-overtime victory over the Big Red in last season’s title game...
...sweep and poignancy, its collision of small lives with great events, the film?produced by Jackie and directed by Mabel Cheung?could make a movie epic or a top-rated, multigenerational series on a Hong Kong TV channel. Traces also has a diamond-in-the-rough star: Jackie's father. A jaunty, salty gent, still vigorous in his mid-80s, Charles carries the narrative. He was born as Fang Daolong in 1915 in Shandong province. A disorderly kid ("I was a real brat"), he became an orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded...