The impetus worked: Mr. Morris finished the film ("Gates of Heaven") in 1978, and Mr. Herzog kept his promise, boiling his leather desert boots in duck fat (and stuffing them with garlic) at Chez Panisse, the celebrated restaurant in Berkeley, and consuming them — partly, anyway — onstage at a local theater.
The artist began work on the monument in 1883 and continued until his death in 1926, having finished only the Gate of the Nativity, four towers that look like tall dovecotes in volcanic meltdown.
Twilight Saga (Summit/Lionsgate) is finished, The Hunger Games (Lions Gate Entertainment) is taking its victory lap, and Harry Potter has a prequel trilogy courtesy of Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. dropping at the end of next year.
After signing a contract giving him a percentage of the gate receipts, Newman finished the 1933 season as the N.F.L.'s leading passer with 11 touchdown throws for 973 yards at a time when the ground game predominated.
Going around the final curve a little too eagerly, he slammed into a gate and finished the race with the orange pylon stuck in his front wheel well.
But the gates are not finished, the project is mired in corruption and the flooding continues to get worse.
The following season, despite finishing sixteenth, the Gate were forcibly relegated one division due to the ongoing delays and problems with the redevelopment plans for Hartsdown Park.
This year marks the fifth season in the life of the stadium, which opened -- or half-opened, since it was not quite finished when the gates opened in 1999 -- at a cost to Essex County taxpayers of $34 million.
Richard also rebuilt the town's wider defences, including a new stone bridge over the River Taff guarded by the West Gate, finishing the work by 1451.
In 1995 at Riverside, where they were known as the Pilots, the team finished last at the gate in the 10-team circuit with a paltry 56,601 customers.
