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Sources: Reuters; Scripps Howard News Service; Associated Press; Washington Times; Radio Netherlands; ABC News...
...Aringarosa was handed ?20 million in Vatican bonds to set his nefarious plot in motion. From London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York City, Lagos and Montreal they had come, to draft a plan against a man they felt posed the most virulent threat to their order: director Ron Howard...
...Howard wants the movie to be seen as faithful to the novel but not noxious to the faithful. "With something as controversial as this," says Howard, "if you try to soften the edges, you're kidding yourself. Either you're dealing with these ideas or you're not." Asked about the book's villainous cabal, he acknowledges, "Yeah, Opus Dei is in the movie." Then, moments later, "I don't say it in the movie one way or the other"--hinting that the society is described but not identified...
...early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately. The trailer was for the movie The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and scheduled to open May 19, and it featured a grim-faced fellow uttering Christ's name repeatedly and then--wham!--whaling away at his already bloodied back with an Inquisition-issue cat-o'-nine-tails. It was not an intentionally funny scene. But Heil, who was familiar with the book on which the movie...
...much of the negative feeling regarding Opus at this point is displaced anger over the direction of the church--then The Da Vinci Code may be the best fate that could befall it. The movie will not deter Opus' usual constituency--conservative Catholics do not look to Ron Howard for guidance. But by forcing Opus into greater transparency, the film could aid it: if the organization is as harmless and "mature" as Bohlin contends, then such exposure could bring in a bumper crop of devotees--with perhaps even more to come if, as seems likely, American Catholicism becomes both more...