Two recent items that caught my eye.
1. Mark Steyn has just posted his review of Spamalot, the Broadway musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and he doesn’t care for it, exactly. Interesting reading.
2. One thing I didn’t mention in my previous post on the film version of The Da Vinci Code is that Lincoln Cathedral is apparently being used as a stand-in for Westminster Abbey.
Now Reuters reports that the Abbey explicitly refused to allow filming there, because the book on which the film is based “is theologically unsound and we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book — nor its views of Christianity and the New Testament.”
In its statement, the Abbey also said it would be equipping its marshals to provide Da Vinci tourists with clarifying information about the church: “We are already receiving regular, daily inquiries related to the book and we expect these to continue and even grow in the next couple of years, even with no effort on our own part, simply because the book is so popular.”
Oh, and one other thing I didn’t mention in my previous post, which also looked at Da Vinci director Ron Howard’s upcoming film Cinderella Man, is that Cinderella Man features an actor named Nicholas Campbell as a reporter. Why do I mention this? Because Campbell is the star of a hot local TV show called Da Vinci’s Inquest, and he plays a coroner named Da Vinci.
Granted, as coincidences go, this one’s a bit of a stretch, but hey, I like it!
UPDATE: Bizarrely enough, it looks like the same Christian publicists who have been promoting Cinderella Man are already at work on The Da Vinci Code! Barbara Nicolosi has the scoop.
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