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His first film -- about two runners, one Christian, one Jewish, who compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics -- won four Oscars, including for best picture. Hugh Hudson, a director [...]

A master of the synthesizer, he won an Oscar for that film's score, and his memorable theme song became a No. 1 pop hit. Vangelis, the Greek film composer and [...]

Dave Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and Jim Irwin, his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut, were the [...]

A long acting career bridged generations. He was a British Olympic runner in a 1981 Oscar-winning film and Spock's father in a 2009 ''Star Trek'' reboot. Ben Cross, the actor [...]

BEIJING -- Thirty-five years ago, a low-budget film from Britain about two runners who represented the country in the 1924 Olympics became a worldwide hit and went on to win [...]

Colin Welland, a Liverpudlian screenwriter who won an Oscar for ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981), the dramatic tale of two Olympian runners who defied both the odds and the British establishment [...]

In preparation for his big race Wednesday, the Canadian runner Corey Gallagher followed a strict regimen: go home from work, chug two bottles of water, devour four sandwiches and chug [...]

Gospel music has returned to Marcus Garvey Park. Groups including the Golden Chariots and the Fantastic Soulernaires could again be heard in the heart of Harlem yesterday, reviving a celebrated […]

In the Circus Maximus, the dusty stadium nearly two miles from the Vatican where chariot races were held in pagan times, more than 10,000 people on Friday watched the funeral […]

NO, this just can't be Spain. The usual suspects -- the familiar red clay, the olive trees, the baking Spanish sunshine -- are nowhere to be found. Instead, as we […]

WHEN Claire, the mortician's daughter on HBO's 'Six Feet Under,' drives around in a used hearse repainted lime green, no one in her fictional neighborhood -- not to mention the […]

AT Beaucaire, near Nimes in the south of France, the Durand family operates two wineries. One is a typical modern winery producing red, white and rose wines under the Chateau […]

IN the exotic-car sweepstakes, even the bulletproof, see-through Pope mobile will have competition when the Pontiff visits Cuba on Jan. 21. No country, not even a state of mind like […]

To the Editor: You analyze the Oedipus tale beautifully (Arts pages, Dec. 6), but fail to mention perhaps the most compelling interpretation of all. You say, correctly, that while traveling […]

It has been the worst Olympics since 1952 for Britain, which is limping sadly home today with only 15 medals, just one of them gold. And to the British people, […]

LEAD: Ian Charleson, who won international fame in the 1981 film 'Chariots of Fire' as a devout Scottish runner competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics, died of AIDS on Saturday […]

LEAD: The three winners stood on the podium, their official Olympic medals hanging from their necks as the crowd cheered. The three winners stood on the podium, their official Olympic […]

The best of 'Sweet Chariots,' presented by Clare Byrne Dance on Thursday night at Joyce SoHo, comes with the last piece, 'Solo Flight,' set to tidal-wave gospel singing by Aretha […]

Whoosh. There's nothing like an actor's pumping legs to stir up a breeze on a summer night. Make that legions of actors' legs, running and running and running in circles [...]

Last week, golf fans buzzed over the declining performance of Tiger Woods -- heralded by Forbes magazine just last fall as the first athlete to earn $1 billion. Now a [...]

When other studios didn't want it, he took on the project that became ''Star Wars.'' He later guided ''Chariots of Fire,'' ''Young Frankenstein'' and numerous other movies. Alan Ladd Jr., [...]

WASHINGTON -- The armored black limousines appear everywhere with Kim Jong-un, sleek Western chariots for the young dictator of North Korea. Flown in from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang [...]

Perfect for triathletes, ''Chariots of Fire'' re-enactors or anyone who feels like diving into a lake after a long jog, the water-repellent Run Cannonball Run shorts by the New England [...]

With the Games in full swing in Rio, here are some of the brightest, darkest and funniest moments in Olympics movie history. MEKADO MURPHY Chariots of Fire 1981 What look [...]

Chariots don't careen around the Colosseum anymore, but the Italian city of Siena still holds a competition from the Middle Ages that evokes a gladiatorial spirit. The Palio, a horse [...]

LEAD: BROKEN horses and chariots are on their way to being whole again in Bridgeport. BROKEN horses and chariots are on their way to being whole again in Bridgeport. An […]

In classical opera, characters tend to get around in swan boats or chariots, but a production of ''Rigoletto'' at New York's Metropolitan Opera puts a 1960 Cadillac Coupe de Ville [...]

Jake Eberts, who trained to be a chemical engineer but instead built a career producing and financing acclaimed and successful films like ''Chariots of Fire,'' ''Gandhi,'' ''Dances With Wolves'' and [...]

LONDON -- Danny Boyle and the British started this Olympics off in unconventional fashion : a ''Chariots of Fire'' spoof; an ode to the National Health Service; geese and sheep [...]

If you grew up in the 1970s, you may have a dim memory of ''Chariots of the Gods,'' an international best seller by Erich von Daniken full of dubious speculation [...]

When King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, the world instantly craved a first-hand sighting of the golden sarcophagus, exquisite funerary jewels and divine chariots accompanying the Boy King through [...]

As 18th-Dynasty pharaohs' chariots go, the one that arrived in Times Square on Friday night was not a Mercedes or a Bentley. There was no gold leaf or fine animal-fur [...]

He played 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' when it rained and the theme from 'Chariots of Fire' even when the home team lost. 'Thumbs up!' he insisted when you were not so […]

David Watkin, a British cinematographer best known for the scenic splendor he framed for 'Out of Africa' and for capturing the loping strides of runners on the beach in 'Chariots […]

The lights dimmed as the theme song from 'Chariots of Fire' thundered through the room. The door opened, the crowd parted, and a hush fell as 200 people rose from […]

The Chinese have raised another army of remarkable dimensions, hundreds of foot-tall terra-cotta warriors, along with horses and chariots, that come from the depths of a tomb site south of […]

It's big, it's bad, it's 'Cleopatra!' What else could anyone expect? Onscreen, Cleopatra's legend has always been about spectacle, not character. So ABC's expensive two-night mini-series includes chariots, warships, battle […]

THE great runners pay no attention to the ubiquitous strains of 'Rocky' or 'Chariots of Fire' or 'New York, New York' as they dash through their marathons. But the plodders […]