Word: legendizing
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...Moscow legend has it that the Oak Hall sheltered an influential Masonic lodge for the cream of Russian nobility. There is no doubt that it was the scene of the most spectacular Moscow high-society balls. Attending one such gathering, Czar Alexander III stumbled walking down that staircase and broke his ankle...
...audiences didn't care where it came from; they loved it. Produced for a thrifty $200,000, of which Clint got $15,000, Fistful made the careers of Eastwood, Leone and Morricone. It created a legend around the Man With No Name - a publicist's canny invention, since the Eastwood character always had one (Joe, Mongo, Blondie). And it triggered literally hundreds of Westerns from an Italian movie industry that had already shown itself expert at imitating Hollywood and British genres: the Biblical epic turned into the sword-and-sandal muscleman movies, the sex-charged Hammer and Corman-Poe horror...
...painted a wonderful picture of Halo 3, making it sound like the next game of the year [Sept. 10]. He stated that the story is "rich and complicated in ways that we're not used to in video games." But long before Halo 3 was conceived, there were The Legend of Zelda and the Castlevania and Metroid series. Even the more recent Mario games have a deep story line. Halo's formula is to introduce a masked spaceman hero, put him on a strange outpost in space and antagonize him with aggressive aliens. Adrian Goldberg, Laguna Hills, Calif...
...style of Robert Altman's 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is elegiac in tone, for both the soon-to-be-late Jesse James and the genre he occupies. The silky cloud of steam from a train the boys are to rob instantly locates the movie in the mists of legend. Like Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dominik's movie says, "Print the legend," but adds, see that the legend...
...painted a wonderful picture of Halo 3, making it sound like the next game of the year [Sept. 10]. He stated that the story is "rich and complicated in ways that we're not used to in video games." But long before Halo 3 was conceived, there were The Legend of Zelda and the Castlevania and Metroid series. Even the more recent Mario games have a deep story line. Halo's formula is to introduce a masked spaceman hero, put him on a strange outpost in space and antagonize him with aggressive aliens. Adrian Goldberg, LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF...