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...demands the ultimate sacrifice, He who must be obeyed. Mel has also sounded addled, even paranoid, when he said that making this movie was putting his career on the line. But, as the saying goes, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you can't be persecuted. Every studio turned down The Passion when Gibson shopped it last summer. They stayed away from it because it was too hot, in what Hitchens would describe as "the less attractive sense of that word." That wouldn't mean much for standard religious bio-pics, which are usually financed by church organizations...
...also, as Hollywood must acknowledge, among the canniest of filmmakers. Braveheart, the last film he helmed, won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. So Gibson might have expected a few nibbles from the major studios for his latest historical epic. Now that The Passion has opened vigorously, and has a chance to become the biggest foreign-language hit in American movie history, the studio sultans might be a tad annoyed with themselves that they turned down a sleeper hit they could have nabbed for peanuts last summer...
...Theatre Pavilion in the South End, will serve as smaller, more accessible venues for new plays, many of them by Boston playwrights. The Virginia Wimberly Theatre, the larger of the two, will be used by the Huntington exclusively for new plays, and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre will be rented out to smaller theater companies associated with the Boston Center for the Arts...
...represents a journey through an unknown country and came as a culmination of two decades of travel throughout Colombia. Each of the five sections of the exhibit displays both a geographical region of Colombia and a different photographic approach, beginning with the Pacific region and the “studio medium shot” and ending with the Amazonian region and the “candid close-up.” This careful, if not obvious, organization highlights the diversity of Munera’s methods and subjects...
...Apropa’t” are distinctly more compelling than Herren’s beat-driven material. As Prefuse, he carves useless sculptures out of head-nod functionalism; as Savath & Savalas, his explorations turn “real” music into dense head music. Given the studio treatment, mournful songs like “Te Quiero Pero Por Otro Lado…” and “Um Girassol de Cor de Seu Cabelo” become confused and hazy, blurred beneath raindrops...