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...quickly to the sexy stuff, like best non-fiction feature (the Iraq docs No End in Sight and Body of War and Michael Moore's Sicko) and distinguished achievement in production design (Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood, L.A.) . Gee, you're wondering, did The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the French story of a man totally immobilized by a stroke, beat out the German spy drama The Lives of Others? (Three out of five critics groups say yes.) If you're getting restless, movie lovers, too bad. You'll be hearing the same obscure names at the Golden Globes...
...Bell went to video. Attempting a sermon for a standard 21-min. TV slot, he and three friends came up with just 10 strong minutes. These morphed into the Nooma--a 12-min., high-end short melding Bell's spoken narrative and a seemingly unrelated visual into a compelling homily. The format is unique in the world of Evangelicalism or, really, anywhere. If the father of a young child can watch Rain, a divine-love parable featuring Bell and his son during a storm, and not fight tears, he is Christopher Hitchens. The 18 Nooma DVDs have sold 1.2 million...
They epitomize Bell's trademark combination of deep cultural savviness and deeper piety. Unlike others currently posing fundamental questions, notes Crouch, Bell will "come out on the other side with something to proclaim." Thus Bell derides a "score card" approach to sin. Rather, he maintains that once you've converted, "you're loved, you're accepted, you're forgiven, you're in." But he leavens the joy of this personal salvation with the message that being "in" means understanding poverty as the Saviour did: Mars Hill is aggressively socially active...
...Bell is experimenting with becoming a national brand. He has just ended his second national bus tour in two years. Backstage recently in Manhattan, he acknowledged that the exertions aimed at "large crowds and good book sales can be at odds with" the creativity he associates with "the Eucharist, the breaking yourself open and pouring yourself out." Fans hope that as with the Nooma he can find a way to reconcile two seemingly disparate story lines...
...store for UNH.The Wildcats travel to Erie, Penn. this weekend to play a pair of games against No. 6 Mercyhurst. More than just a trip down memory lane to your fourth grade social studies class (do any of the terms Iroquois, Great Lakes, or Industrial Revolution ring a bell?), Erie is a lion’s den for visiting women’s hockey teams. The Lakers are 23-1-2 at home since the beginning of last season, which means that coming out of Mercyhurst with a two wins will be no easy feat for UNH.Just one Wildcats loss...