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"It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape."

- I. Compton-Burnett, letter to Francis King (1969)

"Cynical realism – it is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."

- Aldous Huxley, "Time Must Have a Stop"







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Thursday, 25 March 2004

Topic: The Culture

Why we are all wrong about Mel Gibson

See Has `The Passion' caused miracles?
Jeannette Walls with Ashley Pearson, MSNBC "The Scoop", Updated: 2:45 a.m. ET March 25, 2004

Well, here's the scoop -

Some fans of "The Passion of the Christ" claim that the Mel Gibson flick has caused miracles -- and now a documentary is in the works to prove it.

Makers of "Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion" have been interviewing people who say their lives were turned around after they watched the flick. An online solicitation sent to would-be subjects of the film gives examples of the sort of "miracles" the filmmakers are looking for: "a marriage being rescued, an addict who was set free, a Jew who now accepts Jesus as Messiah, someone who experienced physical or emotional healing, and so on."

A website describing the documentary suggests recording video testimony this way: "Looking right into the camera the entire time, begin speaking as if you're telling your story to a good friend who does not know Jesus and you REALLY want him or her to see the film and be changed like you!"

"We have gone to Web sites where there are in excess of 70,000 stories about how people were touched by this film, so we have plenty to choose from," Executive Producer Jody Eldred tells The Scoop. The documentary isn't affiliated with Mel Gibson's Icon Productions, says Eldred, but he has been working closely with Icon. "They've seen the trailer. They think it's a cool thing. We have their blessings."
I'm not sure what to say.

Since Mel belongs to a dissident Catholic sect that believes everything the Catholic Church has done since the mid-sixties, particularly absolving the Jews from the murder of Jesus and dropping Latin in the mass, I don't suppose he is eligible for beatification. Too bad.

Oh yes, on this day in history -

3/25/1955: U.S. Customs confiscate 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' as they enter the United States. Customs also seized and destroyed another shipment of Ginsberg's poetry sent from Canada in the 60s.

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