Word: mammoth
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...into Dead Alive delirium. That didn't happen. The old films could be anarchic; the trilogy had to be conservative. Jackson's duty, as he saw it, was to make a faithful translation of Middle-earth--a kind of transmedial cloning. His triumph was to oversee a production as mammoth as his early films had been intimate, and to keep the grand scheme in mind while enriching each screen moment. Moviemakers appreciated the breadth and depth of his commitment. Moviegoers reacted in awe. And studio execs learned that once in a while it's a good bet to trust...
...Having a mammoth frame doesn’t hurt either, though...
Well, it's true that Broadway's newest Tevye, Alfred Molina (painter Diego Rivera in the movie Frida), is of Spanish-Italian heritage. And most of his daughters (and his wife Golde, played by Randy Graff) look like any other Broadway babies on the stage of the mammoth Minskoff Theatre. British director David Leveaux, moreover, has removed or toned down much of the shtetl shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake...
...kind of love-child of professional wrestling and “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.” Men and women, dressed as everything from man-sized plantains to frolicking tree trunks to one-eyed aliens, battle in what the creators bill as a “mammoth fight of good versus evil...
...round-trip flight time between Earth and Mars and perhaps a 1 1/2-year stay on the planet to catch the next Earth-Mars alignment back home. Even if it were possible to build a ship big enough to carry all that cargo, you would still have to muscle the mammoth thing off the ground. At some point it simply becomes impossible to build a rocket big enough...