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...Kelly: Well, many women have been Person of the Year. Wallace Warfield-Simpson, who married the King of England; Queen Elizabeth has been Woman of the Year; Madame Chaing Kai-Shek and Cori Aquino...
When singer-actress Aaliyah died in a plane accident in August of 2001, fans and entertainment insiders wondered what would become of "The Queen of the Damned," a Warner Bros. movie in which she was cast in the title role. "The Queen of the Damned," it turns out, will make it to the big screen after all, and it is currently set for a release in February of 2002 - with a little help from her family. TIME has learned that Aaliyah's brother, Rashad, recorded some of Aaliyah's dialogue in order to see the film to completion...
...Queen of the Damned" is a much-anticipated release - it was based on the book by horror writer Anne Rice and it is the first cinematic follow-up to the 1994 box office blockbuster "Interview With a Vampire," which starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Aaliyah, who plays a 6,000 year-old Egyptian vampire named Akasha in "The Queen of the Damned," had all but finished her role when she died in a plane crash in the Bahamas...
...trailer for "The Queen of the Damned" is already showing in theaters and is also available to watch online at queenofthedamned.warnerbros.com. (Warner Brothers is owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME). Aaliyah, at the time of her death, also had a role in the sequel to the hit sci-fi movie "The Matrix," but hadn't done much filming for the project yet, so it seems unlikely that her work can be salvaged. However, a spokesperson for Warner Bros., which is also behind "The Matrix," says there's no official word yet on whether Aaliyah will appear...
Milbank's conclusion: Christian theology can now reclaim its medieval position as "queen of the sciences," before which disciplines like sociology, philosophy and economics must bow down. He and colleagues dubbed their movement "radical orthodoxy" and began a giddy exploration of theology's vast, recovered social responsibilities...