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...Gibson Movie: Not the Scottish adventure Braveheart-in that one, Mel talks funny, his hair's too long, and he's literally blue in the face-but Pocahontas, the Disney animated feature for which Gibson supplied the voice of John Smith...
...popular video games to the big screen, for example, has proved expensive and unproductive -- witness the Super Mario Brothers and Streetfighter films. Undaunted, New Line is bringing the mano-a-macho belligerents of Mortal Kombat to movie life. And what's with all these kilts? First Rob Roy, then Gibson's Braveheart. It's one more genre, like westerns (and astronaut films), that studios make mostly because veteran stars and directors want to. Walter Hill has a new western, Wild Bill, with Jeff Bridges, and the principals hope it will imitate the popular oater Tombstone and not Wyatt Earp, Costner...
...OAKHURST PRESBYTERIAN Church, there's a black Jesus in front, a white Jesus in back and folks of both colors in between. The black Jesus depicted on a stained-glass window in front used to be white, but the pastor of Oakhurst, the Rev. Gibson Stroupe, and his wife Caroline Leach tinted the once pink portrait brown. Both Leach and Stroupe are white, and she admits "we did get some flak" for the racial alteration. There were those who thought Oakhurst was caving in to the dogmatizers of diversity, the whistle blowers of melanin management. Some chose to leave...
What about William Gibson's Neuromancer...
Actually, I interviewed. William Gibson, and the conversation I had with him kind of became a subtext in the book, because when I talked to him he said that he could never get on the net because he would feel crushed by it. I didn't really understand what he meant at the time, because I was so entranced by it, but by the end of the book, I understood completely what he meant. You can get crushed by it. The man who coined the word "cyberspace" doesn't have an e-mail account...