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...DIED. HOMER AVILA, 48, modern dancer whose austere, angular choreography kept him dancing even after he lost his right leg and hip to cancer; of lung cancer; in New York City. Renowned for his work with Avila/Weeks Dance, a company he co-directed, he was performing a solo piece less than a year after the April 2001 amputation, moving on his elbow...
...only people mad enough to employ Petersen on a regular basis are movie executives, who are trapped in an increasingly illogical if undeniably daring way of doing business. The latest proof is Petersen's loose adaptation of Homer's The Iliad, starring Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom. With a budget that Warner Bros. (which, like TIME, is part of Time Warner) puts at $175 million--but that several sources say has crept closer to a quarter of a billion dollars--Troy is one of the biggest, craziest movie gambits since Titanic. It's not just that the film required...
Some of Achilles' nerve comes in handy for anyone trying to make Homer's Iliad sing and swagger in a 2-hr. 40-min. movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...fictional Harvard professors who leave their ivory tower perches to solve a murder mystery. The most famous protagonist in the genre is no doubt Harvard symbiologist Robert Langdon, hero of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African...
Herrmann’s homer in the sixth inning got Harvard within one, but Northeastern touched up senior Mike Morgalis for four runs and six hits in the seventh inning to put the game out of reach. The Huskies also tagged junior Curtis Miller for three runs in the top of the ninth, ballooning their lead to 12-4. Northeastern had back-to-back homers in both the seventh and ninth innings...