More specials: "Rabbi Paul" – the movie! Focus on the Family and "Spear" in NY Times. More Pullman poop. Peet joins Perry and Sorkin.

More specials: "Rabbi Paul" – the movie! Focus on the Family and "Spear" in NY Times. More Pullman poop. Peet joins Perry and Sorkin. February 3, 2006

RABBI PAUL – THE MOVIE
This just popped up at DoneDeal.

Title: Rabbi Paul

Log line: The life story of Saul of Tarsus who, due to divine intervention, turns his life around and becomes the founder of Christianity and the Apostle Paul.

Writer: Bruce Chilton (author)

Agent: n/a

Buyer: Mandalay and Prelude Pictures

Price: n/a

Genre: Bio-Drama

Logged: 2/2/06

More: Biography. Alan Riche, Peter Riche, Mandalay Integrated Media Entertainment’s Christian Tureaud, and Prelude’s Mark Koch, Daniel de Liege & David Salzberg will produce.

I assume this writer is the same Bruce Chilton who is a professor of religion at Bard College and an Episcopal priest, who authored and has penned Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, and Mary Magdalene: A Biography.

Here are summaries and reviews of Rabbi Paul at Amazon.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY DODGES SPEARS
Focus on the Family is dealing with angry Christians over the hiring of a gay actor for End of the Spear role. And The New York Times reports it.

“Has Focus on the Family made a strong statement against homosexuality? Absolutely,” [Bob Waliszewski] said. “But what is the message of the product? And do we at Focus feel compelled to check on the sexual history of everyone in a movie? Did they have a D.U.I.? Did they pay their taxes?”

APPARENTLY, CHRISTIANS ARE SOUL-KILLING SEX-HATERS
A sharp summation of the heart of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, and its distortion of Christianity. Thanks.

SORKIN’S NEW SERIES
The new series from the mind behind Sports Night and The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip now boasts Matthew Perry and Amanda Peet in the cast according to AICN.


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