Word: angellic
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...traditional a Christmas confection as fossilized fruitcake. It has a big budget, big stars and a heartwarming rendition of Joy to the World. The songs are sung by diva Whitney Houston, who plays the wife of a disillusioned minister. Her co-star, Denzel Washington, is a sexy angel who wants to save Houston's neighborhood church as well as her troubled marriage. On paper, the movie looks as if it has all the ingredients for a box-office slam dunk. But there's one thing missing: white people...
...wood containers (not like those tacky doily-lined tins they throw at us on the Food Network). Best of all, we discover that Martha herself is far from infallible. "Do you know what I did last year?" she confides to her forester, "I covered my entire tree in blue angel hair. That was a mistake...
...angels looked this good and dressed this baaad, it would be as hard to get into heaven as into an all-star rap concert. Denzel Washington, an angel on loan to a fretful preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his pretty wife (Whitney Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing...
...confusion about what carries religious meaning and what does not is easy to understand. My family Christmas tree has either an angel or a star on top and these items do have religious nothing holy is involved. For that reason, Christmas trees do not deserve protection as religious symbols...
...confusion about what carries religious meaning and what does not is easy to understand. My family Christmas tree has either an angel or a star on top, and these items do have religious significance. There is also the troubling figure of Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas. There is a Christian saint named Nicholas, but he did not live with elves at the North Pole. And while Advent calendars carry the name of the religious season, some contain a Bible verse or piece of the Bethlehem story each day, and some contain chocolates. But this confusion can and should be cleared...