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Watts can tunnel into her characters, but she can't hide her luster. In Hollywood high art, she's near the head of the class...
...Civil War movie Cold Mountain, based on Charles Frazier's best-selling novel, opens with the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in 1864, when Union forces dug a 500-ft. tunnel, packed it with 8,000 lbs. of gunpowder and blew up the Confederate line, creating a huge crater that became a deathtrap for their own troops...
...extras. But nothing beats the real thing, and the visitor's center began offering well-attended tours of the Crater battle site the week after Christmas to coincide with the opening of the film. In the hour-long walking tour, visitors can see where the idea for the tunnel was hatched by Union soldiers as they looked across a railroad ravine at the entrenched Confederate troops. The opening to the 5 ft.-tall tunnel is still intact, and the crater is still there, although a bit smaller than it was in the 19th century...
...CRASH WAS CAUSED BY A WHITE FIAT, POSSIBLY DRIVEN BY A BRITISH AGENT. Traces of paint found on the wreck suggest that it glanced off a white Fiat made in the '80s, and a pair of witnesses saw such a car in the tunnel where the crash occurred. But plotting a crash would have been hard since the couple decided where they were going just a few minutes before hopping into their car. And would agents really use a decade-old jalopy as a murder weapon? Of course, that might be the true genius of the plan...
Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...