Word: cult
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...Then Hayes, a proselytizing practitioner of Scientology, took exception to the episode called Trapped in the Closet, in which Hayes' religion is excoriated as a cult of charlatans and fleecers. He submitted his resignation, ignoring the first rule of dealing with Parker and Stone: These guys have their own TV soapbox, so don't piss them off. They snipped together lines of dialogue from earlier Hayes speeches to create the March 2006 episode The Return of Chef, in which South Park's local hero is charged with child molesting before wild animals tear his limbs off - and those are only...
...military-justice community have felt dissed as a group and are feeling, perhaps, emboldened as a group," he says. Yet Fidell says he takes solace from Allred's decision. "My concern over the run-up to this is that we would wind up watching the legal equivalent of a cult movie, where everybody knows the next line," he says. "This shows it's not a cult movie, although that's not saying very much. But at least it's not an exercise in legal somnambulism...
...anonymity has been as crucial a part of Banksy's mythology as irony and wit. "Anything that's ever been written about him centers around the anonymity - that he's this Batman, this cult figure," says Pedro Alonzo, who curated an exhibition in England to which Banksy contributed. But that doesn't necessarily mean being unmasked would hurt Banksy's popularity. The intrigue over his identity has been a "double-edged sword," Alonzo says, since it has occluded the messages bundled in his art. "His work is a call to action. It's about hierarchies of power, social injustice...
...latest crop of the champ's compact disks: Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Polonaise in C Major, Op. 89; ''Andante Favori.'' Artur Schnabel, piano, with Sir Malcom Sergeant conducting the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras (Arabesque, three CDs, sold separately). Schnabel, who died in 1951, was an unlikely cult hero. Physically, he was unprepossessing: a short, stocky man with a walrus mustache and stubby fingers that, when they were not at the keyboard, habitually clutched a cigar. Technically, his sturdy playing was far from the blazing virtuosic ideal. Yet for concert audiences between the wars, Schnabel was among...
...concept of the "midnight movie" began to change from a Rocky Horror Picture Show cult phenomenon into a routine promotional gimmick in May 1999, when the long-awaited Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace premiered one minute after midnight to hordes of fans who had waited days in line for the opportunity to get a first look. Those showings grossed $7 million. Episode II grossed $6.2 million during its opening midnight screenings and Episode III scored an astounding $16.5 million. The final Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King earned $8 million at midnight screenings. Each...