Word: christs
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Judas Iscariot as the most loyal of Christ's disciples. Mary Magdalene as the former girlfriend who still tempts the Saviour and haunts his fantasies. John the Baptist as the center of a hysterical cult. And Jesus himself as a reluctant leader, subject to paranoid visions, uncertain if he is heeding the call of God or Satan. These are the unorthodox interpretations to be found in The Last Temptation of Christ, a new film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1955 Nikos Kazantzakis novel...
Fundamentalists are upset by scenes in which Christ (Willem Dafoe) is shown as tormented and self-accusatory ("I lied, I am afraid. Lucifer is inside me") and in which he persuades Judas (Harvey Keitel) to betray him because it is God's plan. But what has them fuming is a portion of a final dream sequence -- meant to be Christ's hallucination while on the cross -- in which Jesus is shown briefly engaged in sexual relations with Mary Magdalene, played by Barbara Hershey...
...PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (MCA). The cat's meow: Paul Gemignani and the Royal Philharmonic Pops step lively through starlit arrangements of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusicals...
...told a colleague that her trick was to focus on a spot in the middle of her head and project it through her eyes to the other side of the lens. "She would send this energy force out like a laser," he recalled. "You'd step back and say, 'Christ! What was that...
...Barth asked me the question three times, almost as Jesus Christ asks Peter, 'Do you love me?' " Smith recalls. "I found that I could not really answer the question truthfully. I thought I was free, and yet I was not sure...