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...fourth-and-two-inches from his own 29, Mackovic went for it despite being up by three with two minutes left. It was the right decision because Nebraska's huge offensive line had been wearing down Texas. But who would get the ball? The hot running back, Priest Holmes? A quarterback sneak perhaps...
Having been attacked by some U.S. church groups over last year's controversial film Priest, the Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to protest. Now the company has incurred the wrath of a government. China's leaders hotly object to Disney's plans to distribute Kundun, a Martin Scorsese-directed film currently in production that tells the story of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China's leaders get to play the villains, and they are not amused, to the point of making threatening noises about Disney's future in the great market of the future...
...James Cameron gazes intently at a small monitor displaying footage of a recently shot scene from his film in progress, Titanic. The sound hasn't been added yet, but the faces of the doomed passengers indicate that they know the outlook is grim aboard the supposedly unsinkable ship. A priest is leading a prayer, and as his lips move, Cameron murmurs the lines, "Hail Mary, full of grace...
...brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance of 10 Hail Marys down to two: "Hey, that...
...movies, it turns out. In the first act we meet four boys growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. They talk tough, engage in petty crime and swim in the river like the Dead End Kids of yore. They play basketball under the tutelage of a kindly priest, just like the gang in Angels with Dirty Faces, only with Robert De Niro playing the Pat O'Brien part...