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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world, traveling almost constantly (on a refugee's yellow "identity certificate"), answering questions in 20,000-seat pop-concert halls about everything from Jack Kevorkian to TV violence, and letting his speeches be broadcast live on the floor of London dance clubs. This has led to the unlikely sight of a "simple monk" (as he always calls himself)--born and raised in a culture that had scarcely seen a Westerner when the century began--now seeming as visible, and even as fashionable, a figure as Richard Gere. John Cleese speaks out for him in London, Henri Cartier-Bresson records...
...find my Grinch-like stance softening year by year. You can accuse the Christmas costumers of turning Christ's Mass into kitsch. Or you can see them, from a loftier perspective, as the only true celebrants of the original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take...
...sight to behold and an image to cherish--a little country church, improbably fashioned out of glass and wrought iron, bobbing down an untamed river deep in the 19th century Australian wilderness. How in the world did it and the man delivering it--a nice, pious (if defrocked) clergyman named Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes)--end up in these unlikely precincts...
PLOT Obliterate everyone in Obliterate everyone in sight before they sight in order to save obliterate you the earth from aliens...
WEAPONS Shotgun, nail gun, rocket A really big gun that launcher... kills everyone in sight...