Word: arthurian
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because, though it's true that terrible things happen in war - and though it's also true that even the most enlightened armies will fail to meet the Arthurian tests hypocritically set for them by some of those who routinely oppose military action by the West - still we must not become callous or inured. It should be, on balance, an advantage in a democracy to be faced with the implications - even in graphic terms - of our actions...
...time to put the spoofs behind him. "I got tired of satire," he says. "It was fun, but I didn't feel like doing it again." So he directed Ghost, the hit 1990 supernatural romance that won Goldberg an Oscar, as well as First Knight, the dud 1995 Arthurian epic starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere. He also produced 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, but not until Rat Race did he get back behind the camera to make another madcap comedy. "It took me a while to get over First Knight," Zucker says. "I like to communicate...