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...been held for the past 20 years. Comprising dozens of floats, drill teams, marching bands and more than a few celebrities, the parade aptly commences on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near Crenshaw, and snakes for some two miles before finishing at Western. If you're planning to participate, note that streets along the route are closed to vehicular traffic from 8.30 a.m., so everyone will be leaving their cars at home?for once...
...experts interpret these lines? As you might guess, they wonder where Luke got them. The first angel's language, some note, was less biblical than ... imperial. Brown called it "a christology phrased in a language that echoes Roman imperial propaganda." Recent scholars have said it is a near parody of one of the Emperor's titles at the time: "Son of God, Lord, Savior of the World, and the One Who Has Brought Peace on Earth...
Or would "O little town of Nazareth" be more accurate? Strange as it may seem, a majority of scholars now lean in the latter direction. Those sticking with Bethlehem point out, not unreasonably, that both Matthew and Luke place Jesus' birth there. The skeptics note that they reach the town by such extravagantly different means that one has to wonder whether they weren't trying too hard to get there...
...butler Pagoda taps an emotional nerve as he stabs deceptive employer Royal Tenenbaum in the stomach, then loyally drags him to safety. But multi-dimensional characters are nowhere to be found aboard the cramped Life Aquatic, where the equivalent manservant role of Klaus Daimler is played with one-note efficiency by Willem Dafoe. Owen Wilson (as Zissou’s alleged illegitimate offspring) and Anjelica Huston (as Zissou’s dedicated wife) play their roles with such maddeningly detached insincerity that even their supposedly emotive scenes are one thin ironic line away from bad line readings at community theater...
During the publicity tour for The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Penn spoke to a crowd of mostly college-age students following a packed screening in Loews Boston Common. He was fairly reticent to discuss his note to Parker and Stone (which concluded “All best, and a sincere fuck you… P.S. Take this as a personal invitation from me to you…to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas…into Fallujah and Baghdad and I’ll show you around. When we return, make...