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...Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus" (1941), has a naive grandeur to match its subject. A morality play about an angel and a devil fighting for a woman's soul, it begins with a baptism and ends in bloody death near a cross - all scored to rousing gospel music. Fifty years after its making, "Jesus" was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Registry of Films...
...happened at an Acquire The Fire rally. The nationwide organization stages Gospel rallies MTV style, and suddenly 17-year-old Jessica Ray, who was there with a Houston-based youth group she describes as "complacent," was on fire. Afterward she "took the challenge" and smashed all her CDs that weren't Christian. "I wanted to be putting wisdom into my ears, not trash," she says...
Enter Teen Mania. Combining teens' desire to belong to a larger group while also catering to their appetite for popular culture, Teen Mania started the Acquire the Fire rallies in 1991. The fast-paced live events, with light shows, music and dancers, offer a 21st century iteration of the Gospel and draw 5,000 to 10,000 kids each weekend. Ron Luce, head of the organization, aims to have something different happening onstage every five or six minutes, and each song or performance, skit, speech or video clip carries a Gospel message. Significantly, five or six minutes is about...
...Schiller co-wrote a best seller about the Simpson trial, American Tragedy, with former TIME correspondent James Willwerth. Widely considered the best of the Simpson books, it won Schiller some of the respect toward which he has been struggling all his life. Meanwhile, Mailer's last book, The Gospel According to the Son, was, to put it mildly, not well received. In their previous collaborations, Mailer did the writing. On their new book, it's Schiller, who for good measure is so wildly productive that in September he will publish Cape May Court House, about a car crash that...
...songs, full of complicated themes, big grooves and deep, honey-dipped soul. Even when he seems to be singing about, well, poultry, as on the supremely funky El Dorado Sunrise (Super Chicken), it feels vaguely religious. As a producer, Cee-lo orchestrates a humid symphony of rap, rock, gospel, horns and African rhythms to go with his wordplay. No album in recent memory--Yankee or Dixie--has taken so much joy in simply making music...