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...often does a movie get the kind of prerelease raves that have greeted Mel Gibson's The Passion. "Could fuel hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism" (the Anti-Defamation League). "Could readily promote anti-Semitism" (Sister Mary C. Boys of New York City's Union Theological Seminary). Some critics predicted toxic damage: "Its real tinder-box effect could be abroad," wrote Frank Rich in the New York Times, "where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11." In the usually sober pages of the New Republic, Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University, warned, "When violence breaks out, Mel Gibson...
...allow them through the door: "You just have to think that you're not saying you're the best musician in the room, just that you know how to do your job. You're not telling these musicians who've been around for years how to do theirs." Matthew Gibson, double-bass player and board member of the London Symphony Orchestra, says of Harding: "We all think he'll be one of the greats in 10 or 15 years." Harding's recordings (he's signed exclusively to Virgin Classics) have been mixed so far, but last year's issue...
...Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded Merovingian, filming him surrounded by Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that Magdalene herself was the Holy Grail--the human receptacle for Jesus' blood line--popped up in a 1986 best seller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which inspired Brown's Da Vinci Code. When Brown said recently, "Mary Magdalene...
These stars and other action figures--Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Vin Diesel--are called franchise players, because every couple of years they tote hit movies and their pricey sequels on their meaty shoulders. The bankability of most male stars (Tom Hanks being the perennial exception) can be gauged by the success they've had fronting movies with numerals...
...Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic." MEL GIBSON, actor, on directing The Passion, a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life...