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...call the action heavy-handed is an understatement. A knight in the forest bars the way for King Arthur and refuses to admit he is defeated even after Arthur slashes his arm off (blood spurts as if from a faucet); Arthur then chops his other arm off, and then each of his legs, before moving on. There's really nothing funny about it. The keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head...
...authors rightly approach the castle as the center of medieval life. Their story ranges well beyond the castle gate, but it centers on Chepstow, a well-preserved fortress on the Welsh border not far from Bristol. The 12th century lord of Chepstow, William Marshal, turns up with a companion knight on the tournament circuit in France. Touring the country like early-day golf pros, they clean up handsomely, accumulating scores and scores of horses and piles of armor in more than 100 contests...
...body was washed with soap and hot water, wrapped in a seamless white sheet, and covered by a dark brown shroud. The corpse lay in state briefly at the al Id al Kabir Mosque, which was sur rounded by more than 100,000 mourning Saudis. "Where goes our knight?" some cried. "Where goes our protector against confusion and poverty?" During the fatiha, the introductory in vocation, and again during the prayer for the dead, Arab dignitaries prostrated themselves on the ground. At length, the King's body was transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers...
...London for the ceremonies with her son Shane. Since Shane was born out of wedlock two months ago, his citizenship is in question. Mother Geraldine is of mixed American and British parentage, and his father, Film Director Carlos Saura, is Spanish. "If they can make my father a knight," protested Geraldine shortly before her arrival, "they can damn well make his grandson British...
There was no way that the Golden Knight forwards could maintain the pace they had kept for the first period and for half of the second period. Eventually, they began to tire and that's when Harvard made its move. Or more accurately, that's when the line of Dan Bolduc, Kevin Carr, and Paul Haley, made its move...