The Christian Council of Korea has protested the May release of The Da Vinci Code: not because of any specific blasphemy, but because the CCK, being serious film fans, can’t see what good can come of teaming Ron Howard and Tom Hanks again for an overwrought Hollywood picture.
Month / March 2006
Steven Spielberg to Spare Us Santimonious Films in 2006
Spielberg has announced that he’ll be taking a break in 2006. The director announced that he didn’t understand why his “masterpiece,” Munich, was so unrecognized by the Academy and decided that “he didn’t feel like playing with toys” this year. (via Ghost in the Machine)
RIP Dana Reeve
As if Christopher Reeve’s untimely paralysis death was sad enough, Dana Reeve passed away. She was only 44. She did not smoke and yet somehow died of lung cancer.
[UPDATE: Elizabeth Crane offers some personal thoughts on Reeve’s death.]
New Quarterly Conversation Up
The latest issue of Mr. Esposito’s Quarterly Conversation is now up. There are essays from Daniel Green, Dan Wickett, Dave Munger and Derik Badman.
Ye Olde Reading Contest
Judges and brackets have been announced for The Morning News Tournament of Books. There are rumors going around that judge Dale Peck will take an axe to all the losers. But on the bright side, to demonstrate that he has a warm side, he will call the winner “the best writer of his generation.”