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...There,” written and directed by Todd Haynes (“Far From Heaven”), is a brilliantly fresh film about the legendary life and music of Bob Dylan, complete with, needless to say, an amazing soundtrack. Six actors—Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw—play fictional characters that represent different epochs of Dylan’s life. Tellingly, none of them actually share Dylan’s name. “Woody Guthrie” is a boy attempting to define himself in terms...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...easy to forget that the jovial Mike Huckabee is campaigning as a Christian-right candidate. But his latest TV ad is a pretty good reminder. The words Christian Leader flash across the screen while Huckabee explains that "faith doesn't just influence me, it really defines me. I don't have to wake up every day wondering, 'What do I need to believe?'" He also exhorts religious conservatives to "live or die" by the belief that life starts at conception. Evangelical support has led to a recent Huckabee surge in Iowa, and this ad could boost those numbers further...
...place in the pantheon of profitable fantasy franchises that includes The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. But the most striking fact about Pullman's work is that his characters aren't fighting Sauron or the White Queen or Voldemort. Their enemy is the Christian church...
Pullman sees himself as championing the universal human values of love and tolerance and curiosity, many of which are of course also embraced by Christianity, though not always, he argues, by Christian writers. Lewis' Narnia books arouse in him a level of outrage rarely witnessed during the breakfast hour. "His comments about women throughout are loathsome. His attitude to children who are fat and have freckles--for God's sake!" Pullman says. "I think Lewis was profoundly immoral when he wrote those books...