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...Gibson's controversial The Passion Of The Christ has earned $250 million at the U.S. box office in just three weeks. Reverent Hollywood moguls are now combing through the Scriptures for other projects with religious themes. ABC started the procession with its long-shelved telefilm Judas, left, which aired to middling ratings a week ago. Film versions of the best seller The Da Vinci Code (to be directed by Ron Howard) and The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis' Christian-themed children's epic, are also in the works. More fare for the faithful...
...TOOK "SERIOUS" TV ROLES: Making an early mark in Before Women Had Wings, an Oprah-produced telefilm about child abuse, she recently appeared as the hippie flower child in NBC's highly rated mini-series...
...good political slogan--and more frightening than a powerful political enemy. Never had a national convention been so continuously and fully mirrored. Thanks to TV, about ten million spectators along the Eastern seaboard actually saw the convention in action. In scattered communities across the U.S., five million others saw telefilm versions while the news was still warm--three to 24 hours after it happened. it was far & away the biggest gallery television had ever...
Scarlett the telefilm is slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets...
Writer-Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died last June at 36, was a cauterizer of the German body politic. In the 1977 telefilm (reduced from three hours to 110 minutes for theatrical release), he portrays Hanni and Xaverl not simply as predator and willing prey but as victims of both economic hypocrisy and puritan prurience. Nor is the viewer exempt: he must peek at Hanni's lovemaking through frosted train windows and the billowing lace curtains of the middle class. The leading actors are exemplary: Trissenaar, porcelain-skinned and angel-faced and scarily self-possessed, and Raab, the perpetual...