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Look out, everybody: Two of the most pandering, tactless filmmakers in Hollywood history are now teaching us about honor among soldiers.

Whatever you do, don't call Diana Gabaldon's books historical romance. Oh, there's history to be sure, not to mention quite a bit of romance in Gabaldon's wildly popular five-books-and-counting series of novels, which began with the publication of Outlander in 1991. But there's so much more.

Many people in show business, such as Cher and Madonna, go by just one name. But only one person needs just one letter to identify himself, and that's Q -- otherwise known as Quincy Jones.

The plot for the Broadway smash (and 1968 movie) The Producers notwithstanding, no one in the history of the entertainment industry has ever set out to make a bad play or movie. Nevertheless, year after year, they keep getting made.

Here are the 10 films that meant the most to me in 2001:

Unfortunately, we have to stop at ten:

Think about an average morning in America.

In the past 20 years or so, there has been a proliferation of baseball statistics. The use of the computer has expanded the pool from the basics -- home runs, earned-run average, runs batted in -- to esoteric data like batting average with runners in scoring position with less than two outs when facing a left-hander who was born east of the Mississippi River and used to play for the Chicago Cubs.

Granted, buying someone a CD for Christmas isn't the most original gift in the world.

Longtime performer Charlie Daniels has a message for America: We're doin' OK, he says.

(CNN)-Movie theaters are bursting this week with new films, many of which may be destined for post-2001 honors. On the video front however, it's a different story. Only one major video release is in the offing: Evolution, a sci-fi comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters).

If you like action, then you'll love this week's new releases at the video store. Dinosaurs are on the hunt for those tasty humans again in Jurassic Park 3. Chris Tucker and martial arts star Jackie Chan keep things lively with their chopsocky comedy in Rush Hour 2. And David Lynch serves up a taste of 19th-century London in The Elephant Man.

This week's DVD reviews are on the bohemian side, focusing on the star-crossed lovers of 19th-century Paris in Moulin Rouge and the oddball denizens of Twin Peaks. We also look at Uprising, an inspirational film set in the Jewish ghettos of Warsaw.

This week, America pauses to remember the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. If you hadn't remembered, Hollywood does: It's launching the DVD and video release of this year's mega-budgeted, mega-long Pearl Harbor this week to coincide with the event.

The name may sound humorous, but Jump, Little Children is a band of serious musicians.

A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge head into 2002 leading the pack of Golden Globes nominees, garnering six nominations each -- more than any other films. In Thursday's announcement of the 2002 nominees, the films were both nominated for best picture in their respective categories -- drama and comedy -- and had actors that were nominated, as well.

Matt Damon spent the opening weekend of Ocean's Eleven with fellow members of the cast entertaining U.S. troops in Turkey -- meeting, greeting and treating military men and women, and their families, to a screening of the crime caper.

It's the apples and oranges of television partnerships.

Michael Mann's Ali, starring Will Smith as the legendary boxer/civil rights figure, Muhammad Ali, accurately recreates several key events in the life of a 20th century icon. It's a committed attempt at an important film, but the winds of change that punctuated the 1960s continually overwhelm Mann's narrative.

A movie about a schizophrenic mathematician who won a Nobel Prize for economics sounds like a beautiful cure for insomnia. But in the hands of director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, 1995), screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (The Client, 1994), and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, 2000), A Beautiful Mind is an intensely human drama revolving around the grand themes of great triumph over intense ad...

Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories Compiled by Jean-Jacques Naudet; captions by Maria Riva with Werner Sudendorf Alfred A. Knopf Nonfiction 262 pages

For Jimmy Neutron, the computer-animated star of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, the future is now. But the present is also the past in this inventive film based on the Nickelodeon character.

The Majestic, directed by Frank Darabont [The Green Mile (1999) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994)] and starring Jim Carrey, is a throwback to the highly sentimental films of director Frank Capra.