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Oddly, a movie that features a trash-talking Apostle and a female God is not one with which Disney is eager to be associated. Dogma, written and directed by KEVIN SMITH, takes an unorthodox look at religion, and Disney, producer Miramax's parent company, fears it will offend Roman Catholics. So Miramax honchos Bob and Harvey Weinstein have said they'll buy the rights to the film and sell it to another distributor. Smith, a practicing Roman Catholic, says the movie "was always intended as a love letter to both faith and God almighty...
...destiny; here her reach is more tentative, her manner more reactive than active. There's bravery in that acting choice, and in the refusal of director Gillies MacKinnon, working from a script adapted by his brother Billy of a novel by Esther Freud, either to romanticize or trash the hippie past. They permit us to see it for what it was--another silly, doomed, very human attempt to evade responsibility's inescapable embrace...
...first print run of Istoriya Moniki (Monica's Story) from 50,000 copies to 10,000. But in its first week in stores, the tome has already sold out. Says a spokesperson for the publisher: "Men and women say she may be an awful person, her book may be trash, but they'll buy it all the same." The Starr report, it should be noted, sold mere hundreds in Russia...
Guests came through the doors to find graffiti-decorated walls and "industrial squalor." One student came as Chairman Mao Zedong with a "Little Red Book" and another with a hammer-and-sickle head ornament, though most of the more than 100 partygoers came as "Russian Euro-trash" youth, Haysom recalls...
...will also contribute a boat equipped with a skimmer to collect trash, as well as the assistance of a graduate student with environmental expertise, said Paul Parravano, codirector of government and community relations...