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Regarding "Onward, Christian Clothiers": I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory "here's hell in your face" passages.
The movie's canvas--too vast to itemize completely here--features a New Jersey bishop (a Borscht Belt turn by George Carlin) who argues that Jesus should not be represented by gory images of his earthy demise.
The Museum of American Folk Art did sponsor a reading of passages from the written version of Vivian Girls . Still, it's a pity there's none of Darger's writing in the exhibition itself, because it's marvelous, strange stuff, quite as startling as the paintings--in dizzying magnitude as well as vividness, since in the written version, Darger's gory battle scenes extend for hundreds of pages.
Sigourney Weaver, who plays an acid-blooded Ellen Ripley clone in Alien Resurrection , the fourth installment of the gory Alien "franchise," has made a career out of putting herself into ridiculous situations and managing never to look ridiculous.
Becker, Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post , describes in gory detail how Mao Tse-tung's industrialization program, the Great Leap Forward of 1958, created a devastating famine--30 million dead, more than the combined tolls of Hitler and Stalin.