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That's entertainment! (controversy about 'The Last Temptation of Christ')

From: National Review  |  Date: 9/2/1988

That's Entertainment!

ONCE UPON A TIME, Hollywood made its millions by producing reverent, though often treacly, Biblical epics. Now Universal Pictures has brought the genre in line with the New Morality by producing a film version of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ. The movie features a scene showing Christ, on the cross, imagining himself in bed--a marriage bed, to be sure--with Mary Magdalene. Boffo.

This has given rise, of course, to Christian ...

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