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...empire. Campus Crusade now has 24,000 paid staffers, 550,000 trained volunteers, operates in 190 countries, and was listed in the 90's as one of the country's biggest and most efficient charities. Bright diversified wildly: his second most successful product is the "JESUS" film, a celluloid gospel financed by Nelson Bunker Hunt that Bright calculates has played "to 4.2 billion people in 660 languages...
...human rights." But the way China conducted its bid belied such talk. Just two weeks before the vote, the party celebrated its 80th birthday by ordering all cinemas to show propaganda films with titles like Wedding Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid: China has executed 1,700 people this year in a crackdown on crime, more than the rest of the world combined for the past three years, according to Amnesty International. And Beijing recently ordered newspapers to avoid reporting corruption scandals, religious practices or the private lives of leaders. "The real question...
...those opponents not adequately intimidated by that show of political clout, and the federal court's latest ruling, there is yet another, even more awesome adversary: America?s current top celluloid war hero. Tom Hanks is one of the memorial?s earliest and most vocal backers...
...mind-numbing array of explosions, fireworks and lame dialogue, we are, on film, anyway, a stubbornly optimistic nation, populated by heroes with indomitable spirits. And so we can turn what might otherwise be unproductive and crushing embarrassment for these young actors into hope. Specifically, hope that one of these celluloid heroes either signs up for an acting class - or, conversely, undergoes some unspecified life-altering experience that gives his liquid brown eyes a glimmer of soulfulness...
...they stop singing and start speaking, their words lose their magic: the great Bob Dylan in the megabomb movie Hearts of Fire, Mick Jagger in every flick he ever made. Stipe has slipped into films not as an actor but as a producer. In 1999 he had his greatest celluloid success as a co-producer of the Oscar-nominated movie Being John Malkovich. Stipe is currently producing a wide range of films, including the high school coming-of-age feature Our Song (opening in New York City on May 23 and wider in June), the women's prison drama Stranger...