5/18/2006

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: I'll be at the Mets / Yankees game on Sat. I plan to shoot it with infrared. I haven't seen that done before, probably for a good reason, but I want to see how that field shows up. Hope its a good sunny day and that Pedro is pitching.

: I heard something about a new movie coming out which claims that Christ was married and had kids. You'd think the catholic church would be up in arms about it, but I haven't heard a peep out of them.

I can't remember the name of it though. Sounds interesting. What is it called? Michaelangelo's Road? Something like that. Haven't seen much about it in the newspapers or television. It may have been at the Canned Film Festival. Was it based on a book or something? I'm not sure. A pretty good idea for a story though. Might be a best seller someday.

I figure it must be one of those low-budget indy movies and that the producers will slowly build publicity by word-of-mouth.

Okay, just being sarcastic. I have never seen a movie get such free publicity since - actually I can't think of another movie. It's been documented on the History Channel, The National Geographic Channel, every cable news station, Oprah, The View, and now the Animal Channel is looking for a tie-in.

Well - I wish Opie good luck with it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The movie is The DaVinch Code based on the Dan Brown's book. http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thedavincicode/
With Ron Howard directing and Tom Hanks starring is as far from independent movie as it can be. And yes, it did show at Cannes.
Interestingly, there was even a lswsuit about who came up first with this idea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4829736.stm

As far as the Vatican reaction goes, read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4750283.stm

Dave Beckerman said...

Thanks Lester. I knew I could count on you to clear it up. But you mention another person I haven't heard much about although I read the sports pages every day: Barry Bonds? What sport does he play? I did a google search for him but couldn't find anything.

Dave Beckerman said...

Les,

I figured out why I was having so much trouble with google searches. Google, as you prob. know has a version for China that heavily censors any political, religious or American sports searches.

I have been ordering food from the local Chinese Restaurant that keeps a list of customer phone numbers. I suspect that this list was picked up by the NSA and that there are Chinese spies within the agency that pilfered it so that my IP address is now registered as being in China.

I put a call in to the NSA about this but haven't heard anything yet. Will keep you informed.