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...Scorsese, a former altar boy who once wanted to be a priest, the movie is no frivolous matter. Actress Barbara Hershey, who plays Mary Magdalene, gave him a copy of the Kazantzakis novel in 1972, and he has been contemplating it ever since. Kazantzakis' Jesus, he insists, is both human and divine, in accordance with Christian teaching. What interested Scorsese in the author's approach "was that the human part of Jesus would have trouble accepting the divine...
...bitten on Fright Night. She started turning ugly, and then it was like she was sweating. But the only movie that scared me was The Exorcist. That scared me. Her head turned all the way around, and something green just jumped out of her mouth and killed the priest. You see the devil was inside of her. Some people say it was like a true story that really happened...
...there is nothing tidy about our proposal," confessed Father Jeffrey Steenson of Rosemont, Pa., a member of the committee that crafted the compromise. The bishops readily passed the bill after endorsement by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, who was leading his first church convention, but it was nearly killed by priests and laity in the separate House of Deputies. Nedi Moore, a woman priest from Salinas, Calif., termed the measure "insulting," and the Rev. James Fisher of Easton, Md., objected to the idea that "you can be a bishop here but not a bishop there...
...Church of England, which has yet to approve women priests, took a major step in that direction last week. But in a contorted plan to appease conservatives, the church synod voted to give dioceses and parishes the right to reject any ministry by women, and even granted $50,000 as compensation for lost pay to any priest who might feel unable to remain in a church with women clergy...
...receives for Vice, Olmos has also begun to realize the goal of developing his own films. After Gregorio Cortez, he teamed up with Bob Young to form YOY Productions. YOY has several movies planned, among them The Miracle, about a love relationship between a Central-American revolutionary and a priest, and Birds of Paradise, a psychological drama set in Papua New Guinea that Olmos describes as a "cross between African Queen and Raiders of the Lost Ark." Also in the planning stages: an adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote directed by Young and starring Olmos as the man of La Mancha...