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...HOLY BIKINI Italian designer Roberto Cavalli is famous for his racy fashions, but he was dressed down by Hindu activists for this summer's line of women's undergarments and swimsuits imprinted with images of Lord Ram, one of the religion's most venerated figures. Cavalli apologized and London's Harrods department store pulled the line...
...untapped market," says Jonathan Bock, a former sitcom writer (Hangin' with Mr. Cooper), whose Grace Hill Media helps sell Hollywood films to Christian tastemakers. He pitches media outlets like Catholic Digest and The 700 Club and has created sermons and Bible-study guides and marketed such movies as The Lord of the Rings, Signs, The Rookie and, yes, Elf. "The ground was softened before The Passion," says Bock. "There are hundreds of Christian critics and Jewish writers and ministers who are writing about films." And millions of the faithful who see them. A July 2004 study by George Barna...
...that has changed. Two of the biggest, megabillion-dollar entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera...
...keep jobs in Germany, higher wages are not in sight. So I hope for an even bigger export boom that might create new jobs, because before that happens, only the tourists can increase consumption in Germany. Jessica Neumann Berlin Exonerating Blair In your story on the conclusions of Lord Butler's report - that Tony Blair took Britain to war on a false premise but should nonetheless be absolved from blame [July 26] - you included a photo of an antiwar protester's banner that read BLAIR LIED, THOUSANDS DIED. The slogan is of course all wrong. Not only does it flagrantly...
...hipness easily. It works particularly well in Collateral, which has a nice minimalist quality about it--just these two increasingly edgy guys, their car and the people they encounter. Those include, in Stuart Beattie's low-key but curiously literate script, a nostalgic jazzman, a soulfully menacing drug lord--and even Max's hospitalized mom. The most significant of these others is Jada Pinkett Smith's Annie, a prosecutor, who as Max's first fare of the night befriends him, then turns out to be the last victim on Vincent's list. She's good, but then...