Word: satanic
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...like FX's Nip/Tuck. If anything, it may whitewash porn by showing only its most telegenic, soft-core side. The big risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best lines--he's wry and perceptive, with a bloodhound's nose for other people's hypocrisies...
...battle that we're in is a spiritual battle. Satan wants to destroy this nation, he wants to destroy us as a nation, and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army." LIEUT. GENERAL WILLIAM BOYKIN, new Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, characterizing the war on terrorism as a religious battle, in remarks to a church in June that drew fire after being reported last week, prompting Boykin to apologize...
...time we mention Jesus, we get a lot of complaints. FM will probably get complaints just for printing the preceding sentence. Also because all you FM heathens are a bunch of Satan-worshipping sodomites...
...arias filled with X-rated insults and recitatif with lines like "A weird thing happened/When I went to take a leak ...," the show doesn't have much of anywhere to go. To be sure, Jerry goes to hell in Act II, where he is host of a show featuring Satan and Jesus--but our hearts are still with those angst-filled transsexuals and diaper fetishists back on earth. Bash our tabloid-TV shows all you want, but a little conflict resolution might be nice. --By Richard Zoglin. With reporting by James Graff/Paris and Aisha Labi/London...
...dramatically unedifying face-off of absolute innocence and absolute malice. Magdalene would have been a better film--at least, it could have been a good one--if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it too much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil...