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...star - if that's the word we want - is a large, cheerful woman named Becky Fisher, who runs the "Kids on Fire" evangelical religious camp every summer at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, without, as the cameras are concerned, acknowledging the irony implicit in the location's name. Fisher is, so far as we can tell, monomaniacal. She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...dying earlier, possibly when a home-schooled child is being instructed the earth is just 6,000 years old and that its warming is, like evolution, a myth perpetrated on the faithful by mad science. Or when Harry Potter and the gang at Hogwarts are talked about as the devil's disciple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...political agendas violates America's fundamental church-state separation. This is self-evidently true and at a moment when a church in Pasadena is under investigation by the IRS because a liberal, election-eve sermon was preached from its pulpit, while no one looks into the doings at Devil's Lake or at the churches of the evangelical ministers who endorse them, his is a worrisome point. But it seems to me the main point only in a rather technical, legalistic sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” drew in almost $4 billion, despite its exasperating length and tiresome nonstop action sequences. Meanwhile, “Superman Returns” lured the Clark Kent-obsessed out of their mother’s basements while “The Devil Wears Prada” attracted a solid audience and featured the impressive acting chops of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. That still leaves “Snakes on a Plane,” “The Ant Bully,” and “Garfield: A Tail...

Author: By Erin A. May, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I'm Sorry If You Saw These Flops | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...WHITE YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID He's a genialTexas version of the devil. Dressed in black, holding a cigar and a glass of scotch, flashing a wicked smile that makes him look like Gary Busey's smarter brother, White is the bad boy of Blue Collar TV. In this short (41 min.) set, he makes the usual public issues of private parts, honeymoon tiffs and a persistent fan who cornered White and wouldn't shut up ("He raped my ear"). The material is just O.K., but the salesmanship is expert. He's a natural-born charmer with just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Standouts of Stand-up Comedy Come to DVD | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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