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CONFLICTING CLAIMS Chinese scholars say the glistening white pyramid perched on a bluff overlooking the Yalu River is the tomb of Koguryo's 5th century King Changsu. Some of their Korean counterparts disagree, believing their national hero to be buried in Koguryo's second capital, Pyongyang...
...open an action movie, get recognized by 99% of the world's teenage boys and never complain. Or even call. Creative Artists Agency, home to clients like Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Cruise, found such a client last week in robust LARA CROFT, the fictional heroine of the Tomb Raider video-game series, played by Angelina Jolie in last summer's blockbuster film Lara Croft Tomb Raider. An explorer with formidable combat skills and a chest you could rest a Ming vase on, Croft could make money for her handlers through consumer-product tie-ins, publishing deals and television. Best...
...Currier: Susanna M. Flug, Dana A. Gavrieli, Shiou-Huei Liu, Bryant G. Mathews, Melissa R. Moschella, Timothy K. Ruttan, Abby L. Schlatter, Elizabeth C. Tippett, Ian A. Tomb, Aryeh Weinstein, Kevin G. Williams and Soojin...
...longer are monuments conceived of as abstract obelisks or as bronze men or bronze horses. No longer do people ask who's buried in Grant's Tomb. The trend toward common man memorials is said to have begun in 1884, with Rodin's memorial to the burghers of Calais who died in a 14th century siege. America's latest memorials carry the common man impulse further toward democracy by implying an equality of status of the living and the dead...
...video-game characters are, literally, dumb: they have no animating intelligence except what the player provides, and so--as in last year's Tomb Raider--their superpowers don't help in lifting heavy movie narratives. Instead, our decades-old comic heroes continue to move through the pop-culture cosmos--Ang Lee's The Hulk comes out next year--like the constellations, the movie shows of old in which people once inscribed the stories of their own superheroes. Then, as now, the lights would go dark, and people would gather round for stories they never got tired...