(Paul Mirengoff) Michael Cimino, director of the acclaimed "The Deer Hunter" (1978) and the panned and financially ruinous "Heaven's Gate" (1980), died today at age 77. I consider the former film slightly overrated (except for the pre-Vietnam part) and the latter underrated. But in both cases, I left the theater with the strong feeling that I had seen something, a sense I rarely got the time and get even less now. "The
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