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The New York Post reported yesterday (and even David Bowie could probably learn a thing or two about self-promotion from the Post , which today did a story on a Giuliani reference to yesterday's story) that Arnold Lehman, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, has led the church into the sin of wrath before, when, as director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, he co-sponsored a series of films on religious extremism that included Hell's Angel , a scathing critique of Mother Teresa written and narrated by Christopher Hitchens.
Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.
Rod Dreher of the New York Post is scathing, dismissing it as "ooey-gooey schmoopie slop" and "ersatz romantic tapioca" and comparing the personality of Kilmer's character to that of Snuggles the fabric-softener bear.
West is scathing on the subject of Louis Farrakhan.
As if to prove he has emerged utterly unscathed from his Doonesbury scathing, Will manages to shoehorn in quotes from T.S.