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Published on: 2010-02-01
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In 1988, director Martin Scorsese fulfilled his lifelong dream of making a film about Jesus Christ. Rather than celebrating the film as a statement of faith, churches and religious leaders immediately went on the attack, alleging blasphemy. At the height of the controversy, thousands of phone calls a day flooded the Universal switchboard, and before the year was out, more than three million mailings protesting the film fanned out across the country. For the first time in history, a studio took responsibility for protecting theaters and scrambled to recruit a "field crisis team" to guide The Last Temptation of Christ through its contentious American openings. Overseas, the film faced widespread censorship actions, with thirteen countries eventually banning the film. The response in Europe turned violent when opposition groups sacked theaters in France and Greece and caused injuries to dozens of moviegoers. Twenty years later, author Thomas R. Lindlof offers a comprehensive account of how this provocative film came to be made and how Universal Pictures and its parent company MCA became targets of the most intense, unremitting attacks ever mounted against a media company. The film faced early and determined opposition from elements of the religious Right when it was being developed at Paramount during the last year the studio was run by the celebrated troika of Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, and Jeffrey Katzenberg. By the mid-1980s, Scorsese's film was widely regarded as unmakeable -- a political stick of dynamite that no one dared touch. Through the joint efforts of two of the era's most influential executives, CAA president Michael Ovitz and Universal Pictures chairman Thomas P. Pollock, this improbable project found its way into production. The making of The Last Temptation of Christ caught evangelical Christians at a moment when they were suffering a crisis of confidence in their leadership. The religious right seized on the film as a way to rehabilitate its image and to mobilize ordinary citizens to attack liberalism in art and culture. The ensuing controversy over the film's alleged blasphemy escalated into a full-scale war fought out very openly in the media. Universal/MCA faced unprecedented calls for boycotts of its business interests, anti-Semitic rhetoric and death threats were directed at MCA chairman Lew Wasserman and other MCA executives, and the industry faced the specter of violence at theaters. Hollywood Under Siege draws upon interviews with many of the key figures -- Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Michael Ovitz, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Valenti, Thomas P. Pollock, and Willem Dafoe -- to explore the trajectory of the film from its conception to the subsequent epic controversy and beyond. Lindlof offers a fascinating dissection of a critical episode in the embryonic culture wars, illuminating the explosive effects of the clash between the interests of the media industry and the forces of social conservatism. Day Poems : Walt Whitman: Song of Myself To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoems.net/poems/1900.html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing Near-Death Experiences of the Hollywood Rich and Famous The near-death experiences of the rich and famous are particularly interesting. They're rolling in the money and they're known all over the world. Movie Review - Rolling Stone Music Movies TV ... 'Underworld: Blood Wars': Why Won't This Vampire Franchise Die Already? Archives - Philly.com Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. The Last Temptation of Christ - Wikipedia The Last Temptation of Christ is een religieuze film uit 1988 die geregisseerd werd door Martin Scorsese. De film wordt als controversieel beschouwd omdat het verhaal ... Gates of Vienna After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week we got the message: Its Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address: Videos - Newsy 'Hidden Figures' Gives Black STEM Heroes The Notoriety They Deserve Streaming Is The New No. 1 Way To Listen To Music In The US The Argument Over Where Bill Cosby's ... BibMe: Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA APA ... Using other peoples research or ideas without giving them due credit is plagiarism. Since BibMe makes it easy to create citations build bibliographies and ... NYDN Movies - NY Daily News Trailer for Carrie Fisher Debbie Reynolds documentary released Woody Harrelson in talks to join Star Wars Han Solo movie Opinion - The Telegraph 06 Jan 2017 2:00pm Comment: Two years ago we were all Charlie Hebdo. Now our willingness to defend freedom of expression has been crushed again
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