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...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
Hollywood, in fact, has recently discovered Cambodia as one of the world's most exotic backdrops. The Angelina Jolie-vehicle Tomb Raider shot scenes in the magnificence of Angkor Wat last year, and Matt Dillon will begin filming Beneath the Banyan Tree in mid-February, which will mark his debut as a director. But Hollywood brings in all the talent and equipment it needs, and only has to do location filming in Cambodia's arduous conditions. Cambodian filmmakers hardly have that luxury...
...that CBS was still looking for takers as late as Friday. (For movie companies, the price was still a little rich. Only MGM, with "Hannibal," Universal, with "The Mummy Returns," and Columbia, with "A Knight's Tale," have bought game-time spots (one each) and Paramount is running its "Tomb Raider" ads during the cheaper pre-game (annoying blather) and post-game (Survivor II) time slots. Noticeable event-movie absence: Disney's "Pearl Harbor...
Late last Monday, Lieut. Colonel Yossi Mor peered through the 3-in.-thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct...
...midnight, the Palestinian gunmen stopped shooting. Mor, dour and darkly bearded, watched them pull back from the edge of the graveyard behind the tomb. They had got to within 40 yds. of his men. Mor picked up the red phone and called Aviv again, asking permission to take a squad into Aida to go after the shooters. Aviv was willing to hit the Palestinians hard. He had ordered a grenade machine gun to fire on the Palestinian town of Beit Jala that night, after Tanzim fighters opened up on the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But this was too much. Aida...