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...Gibson has snorted his derision over the two earlier Jesus films that have earned the most sustained critical acclaim. Asked a year ago by TIME correspondent Jeff Israeli for an analysis Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Vangelo secundo Matteo," (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) he faked a big yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power...
...Thus, in the 28-minute Passion segment of "Il Vangelo," does Jesus stride to his death, across the same countryside (Matera, in Puglia, near the heel of the Italian boot) where Gibson shot much of his film. And the mob rushes after him. One screams: "His blood be on our children!" This is the phrase, implicitly condemning Jews for the murder of Christ, that Gibson said he removed from his film. (Turned out, he removed only the subtitle for the Aramaic translation of the curse.) We leave for another day the debate over whether a film is anti-Jewish...
...vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon and was assaulted by North Korean reporters. President Roh quickly apologized for Dr. Vollertsen’s activities...
...apparent drug overdose; in Rimini, Italy. The Italian, who last year checked himself into a clinic in Teolo that specializes in treating depression and drug addiction, wasn't popular with many of his fellow racers but was beloved by fans. Though he liked to refer to himself as il Pirata (the Pirate)?he wore a single gold earring and had a shaved head?fans affectionately called him Dumbo or Elefantino, for his big ears. A note found in his hotel room near his sprawled, half-naked corpse read, "No one has been able to understand me ... I've ended...
...POWs when they return home, so a minibusiness has sprung up. Brokers living on the Chinese border offer to find POWs and spirit them out-if families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy in Beijing, they were told the Ministry of Defense couldn...