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CHALLENGES: Right off the bat, the screenwriters had to commit sacrilege by tinkering with a beloved children's classic. They also had to wrestle with a strongly Christian plot that flirts with Sunday-school didacticism and had to keep kids interested despite a noticeable lack of exploding spaceships...
...read a passage from an article that Posner had written in 1996 where he advocated looking abroad to find the grounds to invalidate a law punishing drug possession too harshly. “Well, I do like to be on both sides of an issue; that way I can bat .500,” Posner said to loud laughter in reference to the potential contradiction. Young said that the heart of the controversy was whether the Supreme Court was submitting to the authority of foreign courts or whether it was being persuaded by their reasoning. After reading the opinion, Young...
...aimed squarely at general audiences as an comedy anyone can enjoy. Set in modern-day Jerusalem, it follows the lives of poor, kindly Moshe Bellanga (Shuli Rand—also the movie’s screenwriter) and his wife Malli (Rand’s real-life wife, Michal Bat Sheva Rand), as they pray for God’s help to find money and a Succah (a temporary, wooden dwelling) to celebrate the Succoth holiday. Miraculously—or so the Bellangas believe—God provides them with a Succah, $1,000, and two guests to share their celebration...
...There was the time the designated hitter called to my attention the “bat lengths” of his rookie teammates...
...Hopefully we’ll use her size well,” Stone said of Vaughn. “She likes to be offensive; we might have to curtail that a little bit right off the bat...