Word: patriotism
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Both sides littered the field with offensive miscues as the Crimson (0-1, 0-0 Ivy) lost to Holy Cross (2-0, 0-0 Patriot) in Saturday's season-opener 27-25, in front of 7,406 at Harvard Stadium...
...million reinforces the who's-in-it? who-cares? trend. Only six, besides M:I2, had front-line performers: Tom Hanks in The Green Mile and (we're being generous) Toy Story 2, Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Mel Gibson in The Patriot and Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The other winners connected with audiences' fondness for old franchises (the James Bond The World Is Not Enough), twisted family dramas (American Beauty, Double Jeopardy), barnyard critters (Stuart Little, Chicken Run) and black comics dolled up as fat women (Big Momma...
...with great amusement that I read Spike Lee's misinformed comments about the movie The Patriot, which is set during the American Revolution [PEOPLE, July 17]. Lee said, "I kept wondering, Where are all the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" As any schoolboy knows, cotton did not become king in the South until after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in early 1793, several years after the events portrayed in the movie. STANLEY W. KANDEBO Newtown...
...vehicle for social change, the open letter has accomplished just slightly more than the limerick, but it remains a wonderful medium for airing public squabbles. Spike Lee's most recent venting appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat...
...books, video games and movies. ("We tell them, 'Think Modern Humorist's Scuba School with Corey Haim,'" cracks Colton.) The money has been used to hire a staff of 10 and add multimedia. MH's "Summer Movie eView" includes audio files like a fake Aerosmith ballad for The Patriot...