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...soggy climes certainly have not dampened soaring couture fantasies. John Galliano gave the house of Dior a rocking 60th anniversary salute with an over-the-top high drama collection that included 45 supermodels, each decked out as a vision of an artist who had somehow touched Christian Dior's life and spirit. Linda Evangelista in an evocative deep wine taffeta dress a la Caravaggio. Naomi Campbell inspired by Alma-Tadema. There was a pink confection that looked right out of a Fragonard, Amber Valetta in pale blue, a portrait of Renoir. Each dress more elaborate and evocative than the first...
...That's not to say that the new film, which stars Christian Bale as Dengler and Steve Zahn as the man who joins him in escape, is anything less than authentic and austere in its evocations of the primitive cruelties these men endured both in prison and during their escape. It has the ability to show us, in grim detail, things that Dengler, in the previous film, could only haltingly allude to. Yet, in so doing, it shifts our perspective. Inevitably, we start thinking about other POW escape movies and judging this one by their fictionally enhanced standards. Dengler becomes...
...Each outpost of Anglicanism, however, has become too much the creature of its own society and culture. If any doctrinal agreement can be made among all parts of the Anglican Communion, it must be based on fundamental tenets, not the issues of the day. Anglicanism is distinct from other Christian denominations by its flexibility in accommodating vast differences of opinion. Long may this continue. Jeremy Goldsmith, LONDON...
...Williams' response to the scripture's stance on homosexuality is particularly instructive. He said, "It's impossible to get from Scripture anything straightforwardly positive about same-sex relationships." The Bible states that all such relationships are wrong. When one comes to the Christian faith, one is expected to work at becoming more like Christ, not to mold Christ to fit one's beliefs. The Archbishop would not have had to deal with this crisis if he had been sincere enough to follow Jesus Christ's teachings, as clearly stated in the Bible. Bukola Apantaku, LEICESTER, ENGLAND...
...jokes hardly register on the shock-ometer these days; Evan Almighty, with its hundreds of comic crap-takings, has been marketed to Christian groups. The scatological jolt of Aachi & Ssipak fades pretty quickly, as viewers' jaws drop, along with their resistance, at the movie's brain-bursting visual density. Elaborate backgrounds flash by in a nanosecond. A million film references - Basic Instinct, Aliens, half of the Spielberg oeuvre and probably lots of Asian movies I don't know - collide and spawn a zillion more. Director Jo wants his picture to be hip to cultural references high and low (Diaper King...