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...would believe that the audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets, over a two- or three-year span. And he's right. Taken with its predecessor, The Two Towers makes Jackson's vision even clearer: that the end result will be not three films but one mammoth, majestic 9-hr. artifact that is likely to become the supreme movie epic of our time. Towers, while naturally lacking the variety of moods and settings in Fellowship, has a grave gusto that energizes every moment. For this episode is a very war-y war movie, a long assault to determine...
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Even though Yale was at home and Bulldog coach Tim Taylor had the final line change, Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni often got the match-up against Higgins he wanted: mammoth defensemen Noah Welch and Peter Hafner against the Bulldogs’ top line of Higgins, Nick Deschenes and Vin Hellemeyer...
...lettuce wraps are very impressive: Moist chicken breasts, marinated in a sweet but tangy peanut sauce, are served with beansprouts, cucumber and shredded carrots with leaves of round lettuce which one can fashion into a sloppy natural wrap. Taquitos are crisply fried, filled with chicken and served with mammoth scoops of guacamole, sour cream and salsa. The salsa, in fact, also doubles as the tomato topping for the bruschetta: as any good factory owner will tell you, consolidation on economies of scale is an easy way to increase profitability...
...Jackson, one year ago, he was one very jittery Kiwi. His Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered perhaps the riskiest endeavor in motion-picture history. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical sword-and-sorcery three-part novel, the movies were all filmed at once during a mammoth 15-month shoot. Jackson, a relatively unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which, like TIME, is owned...