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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KLP who wrote (112327)5/2/2005 9:31:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793846
 
Then there's the Mark Steyn review of Kingdom of Heaven

And, if you're stuck with a subject where it's hard to switch the Muslims to neo-Nazis - like, say, the Crusades - best to use it as an opportunity to explore our present blundering stupidity in the context of our long tradition of blundering stupidity - which is the short review of Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven.

Ask them to make a post-9/11 thriller in which Americans are the good guys and the enemy is, well, the enemy, and Celine Dion sings the big theme song about how she'll miss feeling his throbbing heart beating against hers all night long but she knows he's going off to do the right thing and they'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when - and the studios'd tell you there's no audience for it.

Just like they told Mel Gibson he'd lose his shirt on The Passion of the Christ. The disconnect between the headlines and the culture these last four years is not about economics, it's about a loss of civilisational confidence.
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