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There have been a dozen previous American films (and three Japanese) that have significantly dealt with the attack. Only one, 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, sought to be painstakingly faithful to the facts--no love story add-on--and for this it paid dearly, and is remembered as one of the great big-budget turkeys of all time. Pearl Harbor, banking on a different fate, is Hollywood, not history, at heart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is good to set the record straight on a few things before they become part of the accepted story...
...Clever's throw buried the 13-year old Heptagonal meet record of 70.92 meters. Had Princeton's Tora Harris not delivered the second-best performance in the nation in the high jump at 2.27 meters the next day, Clever might well have been the meet's most outstanding performer...
...THIS WEEK'S ISSUE Inside Tora Bora...
Past Issues Person of the Year Dec. 31, 2001 ----------------- Inside Tora Bora Dec. 24, 2001 ----------------- The Manhunt Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Qala-i-Jangi Dec. 10, 2001 ----------------- Unveiled at Last Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunting bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- First Blood Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Al-Qaeda's Reach Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- War On Two Fronts Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The War on Terror Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- Preparing for Battle Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Target: Bin Laden Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- America United Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept...
...premiere. As Japan has seen a rash of violent youth crimes recently, the film hits close to home: the day Royale opened, a 17-year-old boy wielding a baseball bat injured eight. The film's director, KINJI FUKASAKU, 70, known for gangster films and the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora!, is unapologetic. He says he wanted to relate his experience as a teen sweeping up corpses from an arms factory bombed in World War II. Watch out: Series 7, a parody of reality TV in which desert-isle players hunt one another with guns for cash, will soon...