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Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Whew. Made it through the three movies, ten-plus hours of computer generated effects, several Yanni songs, and six or seven endings. All in all, thanks. This last segment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy finishes the tale with swashbuckling fun

Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Music Hall Not my usual cup of coffee, but when guests come to visit, sacrifices must be made. Many New Yorkers - of all persuasions - have come to treat the annual Xmas show as a mandatory bit of yuletide treacle. This was my first time

Wonderful Town, Al Hirschfeld Theatre This revival of the '53 musical more than makes up for the thin book and no hit songs with its simple exuberance and wit. While this may be second-rate Comden and Green and Bernstein, obviously that makes it first-rate Broadway. The simple story concerns two

La Boheme, Metropolitan Opera House Franco Zeffirelli  manages to upstage the action in this opulent and overstaffed production at the Met. The scenery is gorgeous, and lit with a painter's eye, which all serves to overwhelm the singing of this perennial favorite. Yet, though somewhat unbalanced, the show -- with

Anna In The Tropics, Royale Theatre More stars on B'way: Jimmy Smits appears as a reader to a factory of immigrant cigar rollers in Tampa of the early '30s. There, he reads to them the tragic love story of Anna Karenina. Inevitably, that love story finds parallels in the listeners'

Master&Commander: The Far Side of the World It is complicated for me to talk about the film as I've been reading the O'Brien novels for over a decade. But no matter -- The film is quite good and does what a good epic should do: make you feel

Henry IV, Vivian Beaumont Theatre Kevin Kline wows 'em as Falstaff. Kline plays the rotund gadabout as a drunk Don Quixote, with a lazy grandeur well-suited to one who has few morals but much wit. This production brings both Parts I and II of the Henry IV plays together in