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...public view for the first time is an 80-cm granite head-believed to represent Ptolemy XV Caesar (Caesarion), Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar-found in the harbor at Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, by French archaeologists in 1997. Side by side are three smaller marble heads from the city-of the Greek god Serapis and two Ptolemaic rulers-that probably have not been displayed together for two millennia...
...city with, for example, fencing events in the Grand Palais was feasible. "For many members," he said. "I am sure this will make a very big difference. What more beautiful place for the Games is there?" If Sydney could win on a promise to stage the triathlon in the harbor beside its Opera House, Paris may have an edge by offering to run cyclists down the Champs Elyses...
...budget--$140 million, not counting the premiere last week on an aircraft carrier in Hawaii--is the biggest in human history. Its length--three hours--is properly epic. Its central sequence--the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor--is an excellent orchestration of today's best and brightest special effects. The net result of this mighty effort is perhaps predictable: near total inconsequence...
Notice, please, that we didn't say Pearl Harbor is a totally terrible movie. It is watchable in a dim, beclouded sort of way. But one rather thinks that a film trying to recapture the romantic raptures and ruptures people suffered as World War II shattered their normality needs to impart a sense of their desperation as tragic possibility suddenly loomed in their lives...
...exclusively, with its love story. The movie's makers--producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Michael Bay and writer Randall Wallace--looked unashamedly at Titanic and found its heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today's essentially antihistorical audience. Pearl Harbor thus spends a lot of time with Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), boyhood pals who grow up to be hot pilots falling in love with the same woman, a Navy nurse named Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale). Rafe is first in line, but when he goes missing...