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Rarely, a Christian message is implicated in a Hollywood film. Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which an ordinary guy sees the light and travels far to make contact with extraterrestrials, was conceived by its original screenwriter, Paul Schrader, as Saul's transforming journey to become the Apostle Paul. The Matrix (the first one, not the sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited...
...Nikos Kazantzakis novel and Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese has found a story vibrant with melodrama and metaphor. This Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is not God born as man. He is a man who discovers - or invents - his own divinity. And he is both tormented and excited by the revelation. This Judas (Harvey Keitel) is a strong, loving activist. He wants to overthrow the Roman occupiers, while Jesus wants freedom for the soul. To fulfill his covenant, Judas must betray not Jesus but his own ideal of revolution. He must hand the man he most loves over to the Romans...
Even the equestrian set is tightening its belt; many horse owners are renting their mounts for part of each month. The trend, often called share boarding, is on the rise as owners look to cut spending or get too busy to ride, says Marlene Schrader, co-owner of Beech Hill Farm in Pleasantville, N.Y. Her stables board 40 horses, 80% of which are shared, up from 50% in 2000. Riders say horse sharing is a relatively inexpensive way for a young person to move from a once-a-week lesson to a bigger commitment, and it works for owners...
...their saddles with the number and duration of their erections during sleep. Those who cycled the most and were subjected to the greatest perineal pressure had the fewest and shortest erections. "The bicycle seat nose appears to be the biggest problem," says the study's lead author, Steven Schrader, a reproductive physiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...
...dinner-theater circuit, he met lots of willing women and took pictures of them in flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...