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First, some background. We were devolving here, "Lord of the Flies"-style, a platoon of 59 punks, most just out of high school but some with wives and lives and jobs, who had come to the Army for a fatherly whipping and instead had gotten Kafka's castle - a supposedly all-knowing, all-seeing complete shambles of a bureaucracy that couldn't even be bothered to take us for an occasional...
...September, the chunky young auteur faced a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely...
Smith has already done that by raising profound issues in a pop context, bringing God to the mallrats, making a good movie. That should be O.K. with the Lord...
Locked away from the world (and, it should be noted, the dangers of childbirth and the bubonic plague), Virginia became Sister Maria Celeste. She served the church and the man she addressed in her letters as "Most Illustrious Lord Father." Her surviving correspondence, translated and smoothly integrated by Sobel, ranges from heretical observations of the heavens to the mundane details of housekeeping...
...martyred yourself somewhere in between day two and three. Perhaps she could have done us all a favor and "uninvited" herself from the pop music scene for a couple of millennia or so. If Smith had seen her tortuous Woodstock show, he would have casted her as the Dark Lord Satan herself. If I were God, I would have kicked her off my Heavenly Choir whether she had rebelled against me or not. As for the rest of the orchestral soundtrack that sounds like a mix of "Barney and Friends" and Excalibur, who gives a damn? Alanis: F The rest...