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...greet fans gathered outside his hotel in Berlin, Michael Jackson covered the head of his infant son with a cloth and dangled him over the railing of a fourth-floor balcony. People all over the world were shocked: Michael Jackson still has fans? Despite his unnerving behavior of the past decade, there are still those eager for a glimpse of the singer, and he apparently wanted to reciprocate by showing off his offspring. Jackson has three children: Prince Michael I, age 5, and Paris, 4, by ex-wife Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II (mother unknown), the infant being waved...
...fights out on the open battlefield, far removed from innocent civilians. In Middle-earth, unlike the Middle East, you can tell an evildoer because he or she looks evil. The Lord of the Rings also plays to America's view of itself as a reluctant warrior. As Peter Jackson, director of the Rings trilogy, remarks, "On some level most of the people watching these movies regard themselves as peace-loving, gentle people who would rather stay out of trouble and who are forced to deal with situations that are out of their control." Sometimes fantasies tell us less about...
...this fantasizing really good for us? Should we worry about all these strapping men poking each other with sharpened phallic symbols? After all, on the political correctness meter The Lord of the Rings is radioactive. Where are the women? Peter Jackson filled out Liv Tyler's role for the movies (it's much less prominent in Tolkien's version), but the Fellowship is still as much a boys' club as Augusta National. And whiter too. Don't let all the heartwarming Elf-Dwarf bonding between Legolas and Gimli fool you. The only people with dark skin in Middle-earth...
...quick compilation of scenes from the first film, no opening Cate Blanchett narration--nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack...
...Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu...