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...Bart Simpson would say, that's funny for so many reasons. Only a few weeks ago, movie insiders were confidently predicting that Gibson would lose his hairshirt over this movie-the $30 million of his own money it took to produce, plus another bundle for prints and advertising. Now that the film has registered the highest opening-day midweek gross of any non-sequel in North American box office history, Gibson's supposed to be a panderer, pimping Christ's suffering to audiences who didn't realize they needed to see their personal Redeemer get scourged for the longer part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hypocrisies | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...public admission). But she shrouds that crucial point in a show of grief, describing how she gulped for air and cried and felt the universal female emotion of wanting to wring her husband's neck. There's a couple million votes right there. Martha just needs to don a hairshirt under her perfect Oxford blouse, confess to misjudgments as if she's on Oprah, show contrition, ask forgiveness. She can continue to say she's innocent, but at the same time open herself up to the mercy of public opinion. It's the only way to make schadenfreude give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha, Meet Hillary | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...show my breasts, then I shouldn't be doing the movie at all--that's sort of how I feel." Later this year Campbell will appear in the disco-days flick 54 with Mike Myers. And with her brother Christian, she's co-producing and co-starring in Hairshirt, a low-budget comedy about newcomers coping with L.A. life. She hopes to screen it at the Toronto International Film Festival in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Call Of The Wild | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family that moved a lot) may be unremarkable enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially. The band's considerable heft and impact reside where they properly belong: in the group's driven, likably demented music, with its passages of unexpected lyricism and its lyrics full of muted menace, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreaming At The Wheel | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Elmire reminds the skeptical Orgon to reveal himself before things go too far. McElvain descends the stairs with utmostholy piety; Rodgers leads him on with an ironic smile. Sneering at Orgon's simplicity, McElvain rips off his hairshirt (revealing clean linen underneath) and prepares to go at it. Director Grey Johnson draws out the scene for all it's worth, keeping Orgon (Bill McCann) under the table until Tartuffe has practically consummated the affair. Rodgers, displaying genuine alarm, keeps kicking McCann under the table, unable to believe he could hesitate so long before putting a stop to things. Johnson controls...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

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