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...GIBSON by Jerry B. Jenkins...
...AGATSTON: BRIAN SMITH; NEELEMAN: ANDREW GARN; SUU KYI: EDDIE ADAMS--CORBIS OUTLINE; KIDMAN: JAMES WHITE--CORBIS OUTLINE; BECKHAM: DAMIEN MAGUIRE--ALLACTION/RETNA; IYENGAR: PABLO BARTHOLOMEW; JONES: CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE--RETNA; OUTKAST: MATTHIAS CLAMER; VAJPAYEE: KAMAL KISHORE--REUTERS; ARMSTRONG: JONAS KARLSSON; KERRY: DAVID BURNETT--CONTACT PRESS; GALLIANO: ERIC RYAN--GETTY IMAGES; GIBSON: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; KAUFMAN: SEAN GALLUP--GETTY IMAGES; MANDELA: PETER TURNLEY--CORBIS; BUSH: BROOKS KRAFT; ANNAN: WILLIAM COUPON--CORBIS OUTLINE; NAKATA: PHILIPP HOHNDORF--STARFACE/RETNA; SISTANI: HO; ABIZAID: AFP--GETTY IMAGES; ADRIA: RAPHO; OPRAH: FRAZER HARRISON--GETTY IMAGES; BURNETT: STEPHEN CHERNIN--GETTY IMAGES; EBADI: BEHROUZ MEHRI--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PUTIN: MAXIM...
Playing William Wallace in his film Braveheart, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1996, Mel Gibson said, "Every man dies; not every man really lives." With his film The Passion of the Christ, Gibson has put himself in the "few men" category. In Braveheart, Wallace also said, "Men don't follow titles; they follow courage." As one of the many people of faith who acknowledge that American filmmakers--regardless of how we feel about the messages they portray--produce the best movies on the planet, I cannot imagine a more courageous insider than Gibson. He is the courage...
...long known about movies: artists should write about and direct what they know. They should produce from their passion. But too often pictures made by Christians have been thinly veiled propaganda vehicles. They have not been the sort of art that comes from the gut. Some evangelical consultants urged Gibson to add explanatory verses of Scripture at the end of The Passion. To his credit, Gibson insisted that he wanted to retain some mystery, some impetus for viewers to return to their churches and their Bibles to ferret out the truths represented...
...quick look at the current pop culture landscape reveals this rule is no longer true. Entertainers who were supposed to go the way of the dinosaur and Debbie Gibson have instead managed to maintain their celebrity, despite the often artistically inferior work they continue to produce...