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...last time Christmas fell on a Sunday was in 1994. Leaders at Willow Creek Community Church, a congregation in the affluent Chicago suburbs where about 15,000 people worship each weekend, said that attendance wasn't great. This year, they decided to try "an experiment in decentralizing the congregation on Christmas morning," says senior pastor Bill Hybels. If you want to sing some carols and share the Christmas peace at Willow Creek on Dec. 25, you'll have to do it alone, out in the church parking lot. "In our community, people-particularly seekers who may not normally attend church...
...major retailers who were opting to say "Happy Holidays" to their shoppers rather than "Merry Christmas," complaining that Christ was being taken out of Christmas. Now, other Evangelicals are taking Christmas Day out of the church with the controversial decision of some influential congregations-led by the Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago, one of the most prominent megachurches in the U.S.-not to hold services on Christmas Sunday...
Michelle Williams, 25, best known for TV's three-alarm teen weepie Dawson's Creek, gets it just right. When she sees her husband in a hungry kiss with another guy, she registers that horror-queasiness of having something she couldn't articulate become terribly clear. "Without her, this movie wouldn't work," says co-star Jake Gyllenhaal. "She adds a fourth degree. And I know I'm kissing her ass, but I don't care. She gives the best performance in the film...
...arrogance can be forgiven. Reared in the rarefied domain of theater and opera (he assisted Neil Armfield's acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have...
...least of its satisfactions is Wolf Creek's felling of cultural stereotypes. So when Mick Taylor begins riffing on Paul Hogan's line, "You call that a knife?" one senses Crocodile Dundee being buried forever in an unmarked grave. It's little surprise to learn that the director's next project, Rogue, is to be about a marauding crocodile in Kakadu National Park - Steve Irwin, watch your back. Already one can see Mclean setting a steely trap for unsuspecting audiences to slip into...