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...pursuit. As we stand under the palazzo's vaulted frescoes, Seracini lures me into his obsessive world, enumerating the historical and technical evidence that has accumulated as part of the centuries-old search for the lost mural. I can't help thinking of Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, and, indeed, Seracini is the only real-life character mentioned in the book, as the man who "unveiled the unsettling truth" about Leonardo. Seracini has devoted 30 years to the task, interpreting ancient diaries and city records to try to locate the spot where the uncompleted masterpiece was painted...
...sheer athleticism, his explosive speed, his unbridled joy for running--as the finest 3-year-old I had seen since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Vast ability aside, he had all the extras: a classic pedigree, a gentlemanly demeanor and a body that could be by da Vinci. Two weeks later, he shattered his right hind leg in the Preakness. Barbaro may have hobbled off the racetrack with his promise unfulfilled, but in his eight-month struggle to survive, he became the most enriching story in sports, the warm center of a high-wire drama that featured two owners who spared...
...Loire (Vendome; 152 pages; $45) is a splendid case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the châteaux were designed for the eyes of god: the intricate geometry of the Renaissance gardens at Villandry can be fully appreciated...
...Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, do the two genres intersect. For 2006, for example, the five live-action movies that grossed more than $200 million at the domestic box office - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code, Night at the Museum and Superman Returns - received not a single major nomination among them. (Cars, the top-grossing cartoon, won a nod in the animated feature grotto.) Until the Academy creates a category called Best Picture a Whole Lot of People Paid to See, the SPFX epics...
...outliving decades-long expectations of his demise. Smith ought to get a prize for making hits out of movies in unfashionable genres: romantic comedy, as in Hitch, and this male weepie. He's the black Hanks; and since Tom soiled himself last year by doing The Da Vinci Code, Will gets the good...