61.   The extensive media coverage of most prominent murder cases, Ms. DeKoven said, makes the TV movie versions redundant.

62.   The Dredd character and his colleagues are hardly pitched as role models, at least not until one gets to the movie version.

63.   The movie version begins as well as a movie could.

64.   The movie version of the TV hit show is amiable, if frenetic, aimed at kids who need to be stimulated every few seconds.

65.   The movie version was the biggest grossing foreign film ever.

66.   The movie version will star Willem Dafoe as Bob Dubois and begin shooting sometime this fall in Canada and nothern New England with Haitian director Raul Peck.

67.   The intended audience for the new movie version is much too young to have watched the original, except perhaps in reruns.

68.   The movie version was released in the United States the following year and became an art-house sensation.

69.   The movie version of the latter opens Friday.

70.   The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.