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...with it she has: through 16-hr. days and doing as many of her own stunts as the producers will allow (she has been taking martial-arts training since her first audition), staying--according to most reports--as cheerfully poised at 5 a.m. as she was at 3 p.m. "There is something profoundly authentic and genuine about Jennifer," says Ken Olin, who directed six of this season's episodes. "As stylized as the show can be, she's not a vamp. She inhabits this role like a nifty girl from West Virginia, which...
Luke Skywalker was not 1977's most popular epic hero; that was Kunta Kinte, the African whom author Alex Haley identified as his ancestor and whose family's 200-year saga became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson in the horror of slavery. The event is recalled in an NBC special (this Friday) and the series' DVD release. Sprawling and stolid, Roots today evokes two vanished eras: the antebellum South, when blacks could earn dignity but not freedom; and those eight wintry nights when a whole nation could...
...hr. 58 min., the film will test children's bladders but not their patience. Like the best fables, it creates a world where the young (and old) can lose themselves and, in identifying with the little Hobbit that could, find their better selves...
...hr. drive from the border to Kandahar, we saw scattered shell holes on the highway and the occasional tractor, truck and jeep apparently destroyed by air strikes...
...surrenders was seen as a barbaric order to kill anyone with a white flag. Al-Hayat, a Saudi-owned paper read by Muslims around the globe, said Rumsfeld uttered the words with a "coldness that makes the hearts of legal experts shiver." Pundits on al-Jazeera, the 24-hr. views-and-news channel based in Qatar, asserted that Northern Alliance troops were mostly shooting those from Arab nations who had gone to help the Taliban. Though Rumsfeld clearly said he opposed such executions, it seemed to many Arab journalists that he was implicitly condoning them. Charged Abdelbari Atwan...