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...which Christians are playing an increasingly vocal role. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” released today (see B1), is an extended Christian allegory that is being specifically marketed to Christian audiences. Last year, “The Passion of the Christ” made $370 million domestically, mainly on the strength of its appeal to Christian audiences.In the wake of these mega-successes, Christian audiences have attained a special new prominence in American mass media that they haven’t had before, and aren’t likely...
...walking stick, club, and flagstaff for a silver scarf, entertaining the whole venue. Sunburned took a break to announce “We’re the J. Geils Band, but there ain’t no centerfold fucking up here,” before heading back into their passionate self-indulgence. They were a modern-day Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, playing with delay pedals, riffing and rapping their sound into a violent moaning crescendo. Chief Hand convulsed in spasmodic ecstasy on the floor beneath the silver scarf of his tribal flag. “Now the secret?...
...make “Wardrobe” the next mega-event in worldly cinematic fantasy, they have begun mobilizing the legions who swear by the Narnia books’ allegorical Christian themes.Last year, Motive Marketing worked through churches to make Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” a smash hit. In an effort to reach out to Narnia’s most devout fans, Disney and Walden hired Motive to employ some of the same faith-based promotion methods for “Wardrobe.” (If you liked seeing your...
...walk into a bar, one underage and the other a Muslim. Therefore, one arrest and 50 lashes take place that night. After whipping the sinful Muslim to a bloody pulp, in what appears to be an amateur re-enactment of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” the Harvard cop asks: ‘How do you like them apples?’ This incident illustrates how tough Harvard cops can be, especially considering that the cop decided to enforce a strict medieval interpretation of Sharia law in Cambridge, for no apparent reason whatsoever...
Barusch’s passion for gender issues led her to a switch concentrations, from Mathematics to Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS). “She’s probably the only WGS concentrator who used Math 55 to fulfill the QR requirement,” says Jana Lepon...