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...Black puritans have been trying to ban the word since the 1920s when the white hipster Carl Van Vechten published the book Nigger Heaven. They continued their war through attacks on Redd Foxx, blaxploitation and Donald Goines. But all their efforts have been rewarded with gangsta rap, an art form that has made nigger arguably the most well-known racial or ethnic slur on the planet...
...Colorado. Snow-tipped peaks, perfect powder, second-home heaven. Then there's Denver. Modern yet still Western, sunny, livable...
...through IFC I met some people on Baha’i” she says. “None of it didn’t attract me...it’s not about a fight of whose religion is right and wrong, and who’s going to heaven and who’s going to hell, it’s all about helping each other and to create social justice and to eliminate economic crises...
...true, of course, it is more than that. If true, it is a contradiction, in the most earthy, concrete way, of the Bible, which claims that Jesus was taken up bodily into heaven...
...that's when all hell broke loose," says Zyzzyx director/writer John Penney. Movie fan sites, major publications and even National Public Radio have been chiming in. Now, oddly enough, the movie is enjoying a flurry of press and attention as the latest successor to historic turkeys such as Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Plan 9 From Outer Space...