John Groch writes: "As for naming 3 recent epics: it seems to me that these days attempts at epics seem largely to be biopics (call it the "Pale-Imitation-of-Lawrence- of-Arabia Syndrome"), so I'd add "Hoffa," and "Chaplin." But the only film I've seen in the last decade that I actually think of as an epic is the director's cut of "Once Upon a Time in America." " GANDHI would probably count in that way as well. --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN