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DIED. GARNER TED ARMSTRONG, 73, silver-haired TV evangelist; of complications from pneumonia; in Tyler, Texas. The son of radio evangelist Herbert Armstrong, whose Worldwide Church of God earned more than $70 million a year by the late 1970s with its predictions of an imminent apocalypse, he became the star of the church's widely distributed radio and TV show The World Tomorrow. Allegations of his sexual misconduct later led his father to excommunicate him from the church. Yet he stayed on the air, most recently as founder of the Intercontinental Church of God...
...trained his chameleon-like talents on a remarkable array of characters. In Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, he played a mute who rode the carcass of a pig like a cowboy. He made love to an HIV-infected teen in the blockbuster Japanese TV miniseries God Please Give Me More Time. In Returner, he played an orphaned assassin-for-hire, and he was a bowling-addicted stockbroker in another Japanese TV series, Golden Bowl. "I don't let myself follow in anyone else's footsteps," says Kaneshiro, 29. "Let other people do what has been done...
...career killer. "No Japanese musician would take the role," Koiwai says. He was going to give up on the idea?until he saw Kaneshiro, who was only too happy to sign on. "I wanted to use actors who were different," Koiwai recalls. "I needed a cool actor." The series, God Please Give Me More Time, sizzled. It drew an astonishing 28.3% of Japan's viewing audience and was even credited with sparking a 62% increase in the number of Japanese getting HIV-aids tests. Kaneshiro followed up in 2000 with his third Japanese movie, the offbeat action-comedy Space Travelers...
Within each chapter of Terror in the Name of God, Stern delves into the fusion of religion and terrorism in the modern world...
Terror in the Name of God still contains all the analytical force of Stern’s last book, but contains a more accessible discussion on the why and how of terror and religious extremist acts, focusing on modern changes in terrorist methods and leadership...