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...Without financial help, we might never have heard from Fleming," Rudenstine said, referring to noted scientist and former Commencement speaker Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. "Higher education has become much more accessible...
...subtle for a mere movie reviewer to contemplate, he is left with broader, possibly less relevant, judgments to pass. Chief among them is this: Braveheart is too much, too late. Gibson, who directs himself in Randall Wallace's screenplay, starts with certain disadvantages vis-e-vis Rob Roy: Sir Walter Scott never wrote a novel about William Wallace, and no one named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several big and expertly staged battle sequences...
...DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England...
...along the way, this man for all seasons will surely meet a more prosperous fate than Sir Thomas...
...Sir Thomas More has been remembered by historians as "a man for all seasons...