Word: armageddon
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...season we'll see "Revelations," a spooky looking eight-episode "limited series" about the end times that will try to ride the "Left Behind" apocalyptic craze - although in what may be a slightly tone-deaf way. The series focuses on characters who are working feverishly to head off Armageddon, which is a weird way to capitalize on the millennialism that fuels "Left Behind" and "The Passion of the Christ"; for true believers, after all, the end of the world - at least, the return of Jesus and the establishment of His kingdom - is a good thing. But hey, there...
Still, those efforts haven’t stopped Hollywood moguls from churning out asteroid-themed blockbusters. “I went and watched Deep Impact, but I didn’t watch Armageddon,” said Spahr. “For Armageddon, I helped them do a promo, and we tried to tell them that it was pretty dumb. A Texas-sized asteroid was going to hit in what, two weeks? That would be as bright as Jupiter in the sky. You would go outside and go, ‘Oh crap, an asteroid...
Hollywood preview audiences cheer when his name sprawls across the screen. People ask for his autograph in airports. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has become the outsize star of his own Hollywood story. His hip, high-voltage action films of the '90s (Con Air, Bad Boys, Armageddon) established a new style for the Hollywood blockbuster and helped make superstars of Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage and Will Smith. Last year, with Pirates of the Caribbean, he even managed to mainstream reluctant celebrity Johnny Depp. Rare in the entertainment world, he has been able to transfer his instinct for the mass audience from movies...
...Afflecks? Clowns aside, there is a shallow pool of American leading men in their 30s. Affleck's pal Matt Damon has had hits and flops, though fewer of each than Ben. Same with Edward Norton. They all bound from action picture to indie, as Affleck has--from Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) to Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl), from starring in potential franchise pictures (The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil) to doing cameos in films by friends...
...obvious reasons. As Kushner notes, "Today, you can say we're approaching the end of things without sounding like a nut ... Those towers collapsing--it looked like something from a tarot deck." But even before 9/11, millennialism was in the American DNA, sowed by religious settlers awaiting Armageddon; it is embodied today by the many citizens who expect the Second Coming in their lifetimes, as well as by secular idealists and doomsayers who believe that America is not just on the verge of transformation but duty bound to create...