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...min., The Return of the King occasionally slows to a trot. There's a long middle passage where half a dozen characters in turn muse and fret at length. After the climax there's a plethora of meetings and farewells, most of them extended versions of the goodbyes in The Wizard of Oz. But Jackson is entitled. He surely felt that he and his companions of the Ring had waged their own hard, heroic battle and that sentimental adieus were earned...
This: in some theaters, the Ring trilogy will be shown back to back to back. What a 9-hr. 17-min. trip--three huge installments, one supreme enthrallment. Ecstasy trumps exhaustion in the reliving of a great human quest, a cinematic triumph. --By Richard Corliss...
...First nonstop flight across North America takes 26 hr., 50 min...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time of 14 hr. 31 min...
...that, they suggest, they won't survive. Intelligence sources tell Jacquard that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features a bone-chilling cell-phone call that two of the terrorists apparently made from a car as they launched their May attack. It lasts 7 min. 21 sec. and closes with bursts of gunfire, remote screams of alarm and shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" This is propaganda, and it's aimed at die-hard followers of bin Laden. Jacquard believes the group wants to provoke a bloody war between its core supporters and Saudi authorities--much like...