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...Coleman says she believes that the Hollywood vision of Rome is based more on 19th and 20th century interpretation than on primary reasearch. She points to the work of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema as feeding the "sword and sandal" look of prior films...
Ridley Scott's Gladiator glances back to the old sword-and-toga epics, and it's surely sturdier than the 1959 Ben-Hur (which won an unconscionable 11 Oscars). It has the fights and the fraught manhood while skipping the piety. DreamWorks, the film's distributor, knows how to market a movie to the Academy; it won last year with the smallish American Beauty. And the film boasts a strong, unsentimental performance from Russell Crowe...
Armed with a plastic sword, Hopkins tackled the dragon and pinned him to the ground...
...line with the night's cannibalism theme, Hopkins stood above the dragon and pretended to eat a piece--using the plastic sword and trident as his utensils...
...Iraq is that they?re militarily routine - which, of course, they are, even if they also serve to underline the authority of a new sheriff in the Gulf. But emphasizing the continuity of President Bush?s action with the practice followed under the Clinton administration is a double-edged sword: After all, it?s not as if that policy was ever hailed as any great success. Then again, options are few in the post-Gulf War impasse over Iraq...