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...most beautiful woman in the world. The goddesses neglect to inform Paris that Helen is married, and Agamemnon, brother of Helen's husband and king of the Greeks, sends 1,000 ships to Troy to get her back. Paris--a lover not a fighter--asks his noble brother Hector to defend him and the rest of Troy while the Greeks rally behind the demigod Achilles, the world's greatest warrior...
Amazingly, the principals remained relatively unscathed until the end. The critical fight between Hector and Achilles was scheduled to be shot just before production wrapped, to give Bana and Pitt extra time to practice their swordsmanship with renowned stunt coordinator Simon Crane (Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan). But a few days before the fight, Pitt damaged his Achilles tendon--an irony he can laugh about now, though only a little. A few days later, Hurricane Marty, the second hurricane to hit the production, blew down the walls of Troy. The walls were rebuilt, and Pitt's leg healed, but shooting...
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...Andy Rooney are both 85; Morley Safer is a grandpaternal 73; Don Hewitt, the show?s founding and continuing boss, is 81 and reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt and his honchos to expose greed, chicanery and general weaseliness. (Recall the superb ?Saturday Night Live? sketch, in November 1984, when Shearer as Wallace quizzed...
When he was setting the Parisian music world abuzz with his precocious piano playing in the 1840s, the young Camille Saint-Saens was taken to play for the great Hector Berlioz. Saint-Saens, with an aplomb beyond his years, dashed off a dazzling keyboard display. "All he lacks," announced Berlioz, "is inexperience...