Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result was The Spirit of Christmas, a 5-min. animated short in which Jesus and Santa Claus fight and curse each other over who has the bigger claim to the holiday. "I was supposed to send it to 500 people on my executive kiss-a__ list," says Graden, who has since moved to MTV. "And I saw it and thought, O.K., this is the funniest thing I've ever seen, but I can't send it to studio heads. So I sent it to about 40 friends, most of them not even in the business." Nevertheless, the tape was copied...
...representation. While they may not have gained any friends at the National Endowment for the Arts, these artists all raised important questions about the contemporary and historic constructions of their ethnic, sexual and political identities. Walker joked about one of Serrano's most notorious images, "You can't put Jesus in a piss jar, but you can't put Sambo anywhere...
Bishop Eddie L. Long, New Birth's pastor, led the congregation, or audience, in a confession of faith in Jesus, telling the participants that if this was their first time professing faith in Jesus, they had been saved that day. Not surprisingly, within days of the assembly, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Atlanta chapter, joined together to assault the school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Julianne Moore has a few great moments as a seductive experimental artist. John Turturro is also on hand as the egocentric, purple spandex-clad bowler Jesus Quintana, quite possibly the more outrageous character he as ever played...
...soon I hear my voice mixing with those around me, climbing in volume with the crowd in what sounds vaguely like a communal religious ceremony. It sounds that way, at least, if you don't pay careful attention to what's being said. Because while "God" and "Jesus" do get a mention here and there, prayer doesn't seem the best way to characterize the spirit in which all that religious vocabulary is being used. A better explanation is that a great many members of the gathered mass are slinging their most forceful, most venomous curses at television sets...