Just a few more news links.
1. But first, I want to humbly admit that I saw The Dukes of Hazzard last night — for business and/or research purposes only, I assure you — and as one who had never seen Jessica Simpson on the big or small screen before, I have just one question. Do people actually find her attractive? Cuz she certainly didn’t seem particularly sexy to me, despite all the publicity and all the “story” elements that seemed to hinge on this alleged sexiness. And as for her acting skills, they made me pine for the subtleties and nuances of Britney Spears’s performance in Crossroads (2002).
2. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Catholic Archbishop George Pell intends to invite Mel Gibson to stage the crucifixion of Christ in his city, if Sydney is selected to host World Youth Day 2008. Apparently this intention is part of Sydney’s “pitch” to be the host city, though it is not at all clear whether Gibson, who has ties to a Catholic group that rejects all the Popes since Vatican II, would want to take part in a papal ceremony such as this.
3. IndieWIRE reports that one of the films playing at the Sarajevo Film Festival this month will be What Is a Man without a Mustache?, directed by Hrvoje Hribar, a Croatian, and described as a “romantic comedy set in rough landscape . . . about a woman who falls in love with a local priest” from a “bankrupt parish”.
4. GetReligion.org notes that the Entertainment Weekly feature on The Aristocrats gives its punchline, or at least the last word, to Christian movie critic Michael Elliott. It also notes that Elliott credits his spiritual perspective to The Way International, a group founded in Ohio 63 years ago that happens to deny core Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the divinity of Christ.
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