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Tangible passion, believable battle scenes and all the flair one would hope to find in the retelling of the most famous medieval myth are present in Columbia Pictures's First Knight.
DIED. STANLEY ELKIN, 65, darkly witty, language-obsessed novelist; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Missouri. Author of 17 books, Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for George Mills, which-in a plot typical of his absurdist bent-follows a thousand-year lineage of losers...
From 1931 to 1941 Cottrell served as executive secretary of the Medieval Academy of America, a group of scholars who studied the Middle Ages, and edited its quarterly, Speculum. At the beginning of World War II, Cottrell was recruited into the Office of strategic services and served as chief of...
Life for the singing monks of Santo Domingo de Silos has never been the same since they became recording stars. Last spring Chant, their Latin-language recording of medieval Gregorian sung prayer, achieved the nearest thing to a record-industry miracle: it ascended to No. 3 on the pop music...
Though Chant sold 6 million copies worldwide and grossed more than $50 million for EMI Records (whose stars range from Sinaad O'Connor to Digable Planets), Laurentino de Buruaga, the group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the...