[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope v Gore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy The *Pope* warning people about dubious ideology? Too funny! And the Pope needs a makeover, too: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_en_ot/people_franco_zeffirelli Zeffirelli: Pope Benedict needs makeover John Paul II, often spontaneous and sometimes outdoorsy, had little use for fancy papal attire. But Benedict has taken to wearing some eye-stopping outfits in his public appearances, including a red velvet cape trimmed with ermine, a fur-trimmed stocking cap that some first mistook for a Santa Claus hat, and bright red Prada loafers. What I found most fascinating about the article was the revelation that Zefferelli has directed ceremonies at the Vatican. Cool. FINALLY we have an openly gay guy from the movie business choreographing all the pomp and circumstance and costumes and pageantry of religion. This is how it should have worked all along. Can't you imagine a mass Southern Fundamentalist riverside baptism choreographed by Busby Berkeley, a la the Esther Williams swim-a-thons? The mind boggles. It's not without precedent -- Ken Russell, famous for his own brand of over-the-top flamboyance, did religion with his brilliant film The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils Of Loudon. About the only thing missing from that extravaganza was a chorus line of dancing Jesuses, and Kubrick did that one in A Clockwork Orange. :-) Now what I'm wondering is what director we could recruit to choreograph and produce the ceremonies and bring the Hollywood touch to the TM movement. David Lynch is a natural, but he'd cast all the Rajas as dwarves, and that just wouldn't fly with Maharishi because they're all deformed and all, so he's right out. Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge and the gaudy version of Romeo and Juliet set in Miami and starring Leonardo di Caprio has the right amount of subtlety and reserve for the project :-), but he's busy work- ing on a flick about Australia. It'll probably have dancing kangaroos. Tim Burton would be good, with Johnny Depp in a fat suit playing a deranged Bevan. Or there's this new remake flick called I Am Legend -- you could throw away the plot and just keep the title and it would be a perfect vehicle for almost anyone in the TMO hierarchy. If Joseph L. Mankiewicz wasn't all dead and all, we could hire him to stage some of the ceremonies a la Cleopatra. Maharishi's *already* got the elephants he'd need, and their costumes and crowns make the Rajas without beards *already* look like drag versions of Elizabeth Taylor, so that's another natural matchup. But, as long as we're bringing people back from the dead to film TM: The Movie, my pick would be Mack Sennett. If he could almost bring a sense of dignity to the Keystone Cops, think what he could do for the Rajas...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope v Gore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy The *Pope* warning people about dubious ideology? Too funny! And the Pope needs a makeover, too: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_en_ot/people_franco_zeffirelli Zeffirelli: Pope Benedict needs makeover John Paul II, often spontaneous and sometimes outdoorsy, had little use for fancy papal attire. But Benedict has taken to wearing some eye-stopping outfits in his public appearances, including a red velvet cape trimmed with ermine, a fur-trimmed stocking cap that some first mistook for a Santa Claus hat, and bright red Prada loafers. What I found most fascinating about the article was the revelation that Zefferelli has directed ceremonies at the Vatican. Cool. FINALLY we have an openly gay guy from the movie business choreographing all the pomp and circumstance and costumes and pageantry of religion. ** The reason why the Vatican is OK with Zeffirelli is that, although Z is openly gay, he sides with the Church's stance against recognition of gays: Although Zeffirelli is openly gay and has frankly discussed his sexuality in his autobiography, he is nonetheless somewhat paradoxical in this regard. Some critics have noted a homosexual gaze in his films, particularly in their lingering and erotically tinged close-up shots of the semi-nude male body. In Tea with Mussolini, moreover, he cast Lily Tomlin as an unambiguously lesbian character. At the same time, however, his advocacy of Catholic dogma in opposition to gay activism has not gone unnoticed, particularly his backing of Vatican efforts to thwart the inception of a Gay Pride parade in Rome. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/zeffirelli_f.html This sort of dissonant behavior in gay men is not unusual, of course - - we were just privy to the ludicrous I am not gay shout-out of privy-sex Senator Craig, but it is a little unusual for a gay artist, since artists rarely are expected to toe the macho line in society.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope v Gore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy The *Pope* warning people about dubious ideology? Too funny! And the Pope needs a makeover, too: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_en_ot/people_franco_zeffirelli Zeffirelli: Pope Benedict needs makeover John Paul II, often spontaneous and sometimes outdoorsy, had little use for fancy papal attire. But Benedict has taken to wearing some eye-stopping outfits in his public appearances, including a red velvet cape trimmed with ermine, a fur-trimmed stocking cap that some first mistook for a Santa Claus hat, and bright red Prada loafers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope v Gore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy The *Pope* warning people about dubious ideology? Too funny!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope v Gore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2t4nzy The *Pope* warning people about dubious ideology? Too funny! * Hey, cut the guy some slack -- after all, the Church did apologize for the 1633 trial of Galileo: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/13/story_1349_1.html
