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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much fun Munson has pronouncing his name.) Strutting around in uniform with a charismatic squint and a terrifically nasal speaking voice, Klyce’s strong, clear tenor plays second fiddle only to his great comic timing. There’s a joke involving the hilt of his sword and an erection that is much funnier than it has any business being, and that’s entirely to Klyce’s credit...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Utopia’ Is a Near-Perfect Production | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...behest of their rich employers, operating without any oversight or rules of engagement. These gun-toting cowboys charging around in their SUVs taint the already sullied image of our military and government. They went into battle for two reasons: blood and money. Those who live by the sword should expect to perish by it. It is foolish for their families to expect that they are going to be safe. When even journalists and humanitarian relief workers are targets of violence in Iraq, why should these armed men be exempt? Their deaths highlight the ineptitude of the government that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Apr. 16, 2007 | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...Cassius was the perfect foil to Brutus: energetic and passionate where Brutus was calm and considered. Berman seemed perpetually on the verge of attacking someone, making the character fiery and the play livelier. At one point Cassius and Brutus came to blows, proving that both wield a mean fencing sword...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: 'Julius Caesar' an Ambiguous Success | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...According to legend, Leonidas, King of the Spartans and the hero of Thermopylae, was a direct descendant of Heracles. For sure, 300 is a direct descendant of Le Fatiche di Ercole, the 1958 Italian sword-and-sandal epic directed by Pietro Francisci and starring California muscleman Steve Reeves. Entrepreneur Joe Levine bought the U.S. distribution rights to the movie (for $120,000), shortened the title to Hercules and booked it in more than 600 theaters - possibly the largest booking of that time, when films typically opened in a few big-city theaters, then slowly spread out to neighborhood bijous. Hercules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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