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...notably The Lady's Not for Burning, a comedy about a suspected witch and an ex-soldier?created roles for the era's greatest actors, including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton. Fry reached his biggest audience, however, as a script doctor who did a rewrite for the epic 1959 film...
...doling out to people in need?as if they were benevolent Sultans with bottomless purses. But they must not be corrupt. In our personality-driven culture, clans and ritual bonds are important; ideologies and government programs are not. When things go right, it's because leaders are heroes of epic proportion. When things go wrong, we replace personalities rather than reinforce institutions and processes...
...Eliot, was responsible for a brief, midcentury revival of verse drama; in Chichester, England. While celebrated for plays like The Lady's Not for Burning, he reached his biggest audience when he was hired by director William Wyler as a script doctor and did a rewrite for the epic 1959 film...
...pounds. Our competition included several post-graduates, as well. The team had set a record in the reserve race against Oxford several months before. We were collectively outweighed by around 240 pounds, a fact that rendered meaningless any comparisons between our race and last year’s epic showdown between Harvard’s and Cambridge’s varsity heavyweights. This race was more David-and-Goliath than Ali-Fraser...
Luckily, Steven Spielberg’s sparkling new version of H. G. Wells’ anti-colonialist sci-fi bonanza, “The War of the Worlds,” avoids the cliché pratfalls that have been the peril of many an ambitious epic. As he destroys Planet Earth, Spielberg spares us images of the White House splintering to pieces or blustery generals ordering tanks and fighter jets into battle; instead, we see the horrors through the eyes of Spielberg’s everyman hero, Ray Ferreira (Tom Cruise...