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...Passion of the Christ...
...PASSION OF THE CHRIST...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise...
Case in point. Father Bowen Woodruff, Vicar of the Anglican Church of the Incarnation (ACOI), applied for UM membership in February 2002. His church, a parish of the nation-wide Anglican Province of Christ the King, includes a substantial number of Harvard students and faculty and meets in the Swedenborg Chapel, right in the middle of campus. In April of that year, Woodruff received a letter back from Dennis Sheehan, the chair of the UM’s membership committee, detailing concerns the UM had about the ACOI’s relationship with mainline Episcopalians...
...Tracy's taken a lot of heat over the years," says Depp. "She has bosses and higher-ups, and every time I take on another strange project, they're going, 'Jesus Christ! When does he do a movie where he kisses the girl? When does he get to pull a gun out and shoot somebody? When does he get to be a f______ man for a change? When is he finally going to do a blockbuster...