Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More bad news for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Not only has the religious cult leader lost his case to the IRS but he must now face the fact that Inchon, his first, $46 million venture as a movie financier, is unlikely to contribute so much as a dollar to defraying his legal fees...
Cellucci's investigation of the Ashram was prompted by a neighbor who complained about the group at last week's regular meeting of the Cambridge City Council Helen Parker who lives actors the street from the Ashram labeled the group a "cult" and made a number of accusations against the sect...
...than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind the country's "economic miracle." They transformed the director from a cult commodity to a mainstream moneymaker...
...week the computer was only $299, and the company was offering buyers an additional $100 rebate. The tempting price and the unrestrained enthusiasm of his children made a purchase virtually inevitable. Said he: "The kids are wild about it. They are addicted to it. It's like a cult...
...from bland to bludgeon: Class of 1984. Mark Lester, who has put some zing into his earlier melodramas (Truck Stop Women, Stunts), here borrows from George Armitage's cult Gothic, Massacre at Central High, to create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape...