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...Greco mode; the scenes are essentially brisk illustrations of the Gospels. Nearly all the dialogue and narrative intertitles are from the Gospels. The exceptions: a few that mitigate supposed Jewish guilt for Jesus' death. Magdalene: "The High Priest speaketh not for the people." And a Pharisee, at the end: "Lord God Jehovah, visit not Thy wrath on Thy people Israel - I alone am guilty...
...This Hassidic hippie show, by John-Michael Tebelak and composer Steven Schwartz, spawned the Top 20 charter "Day by Day" ("Oh Lord, three things I pray: To see Thee more clearly, To love Thee more dearly, To follow Thee more nearly, day by day"). Director David Greene set the 1973 movie on Manhattan's city streets and the climax in a city playground. The other night on "The Daily Show," Rob Corddry accurately described the "Godspell" Christ figure as "a '70s pop rainbow suspendery kind of Jesus." Brown-eyed, frizzy-haired Victor Garber, who 30 years later has a career...
...Body of Christ! Sleek swimmer's body, all muscled up and toned! The Body of Christ! O, Lord Almighty, I wish I could call it my own!... Lord Almighty oooooooooo, I've never been so enticed! Oh I wish I could have the body of Christ...
...event created by the entertainment industry, this Sunday’s Academy Awards are going to be amazingly boring. With the major categories pretty much locked up (Best Film: Lord of the Rings, Best Actor: Sean Penn, Best Actress: Charlize Theron, etc.), and with no known child rapist in the running for this year’s directing honor, viewers will have to rely on Billy Crystal to boost the show’s humor and intelligence quotient...
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Why be uniformly negative when you can find one semi-positive aspect of this year’s awards which can be given at least some halfhearted partial praise? In a year when the third Lord of the Rings movie will win Best Picture despite failing to give a coherent structure or psychological basis to its plot (why get hung up on details?), the academy was at least smart enough to recognize Johnny Depp and Keisha Castle-Hughes for making deceptively difficult roles look easy. Depp has been around forever, contributing sensitive performances in challenging...