Month: April 2006

  • A Hollywood Easter

    Part I:
    Good Friday morning


    Hollywood turns to divine inspiration

    Updated 4/14/2006 9:55 AM ET

    By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

    LOS ANGELES -- In God, Hollywood is trusting it will find big profits.

    Inspired by box-office smashes such as The Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
    studios are not only casting an eye to more religious-themed stories,
    but they're also marketing movies more aggressively than ever to
    churchgoers.

    Part II:
    Good Friday afternoon

    Log24, 3 PM Good Friday, 2006.

    Part III:
    Easter in Hollywood


    Latest "Scary" spoof leads box office


    Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:02 PM ET

    By Dean Goodman

    LOS
    ANGELES (Reuters) - The joke may be wearing a little thin for critics
    but the fourth installment of the "Scary Movie" spoof franchise managed
    to open atop the weekend box office in North America with sizable
    ticket sales.

    According to studio estimates issued on Sunday,
    "Scary Movie 4" earned $41.0 million in the three days beginning April
    14, setting a new record for the Easter weekend.

    Part IV:  Now

    Blog search for SubSpecies23.

  • Easter Conundrum:
    Three Days, Three Nights?

    One of Christianity's many internal contradictions is as follows:

    Jesus supposedly said he would be in the tomb for "three days and three
    nights," yet most Christians accept without question the story that he
    died on a Friday afternoon and rose on the following Sunday morning.

    I was surprised to find this afternoon that at least one subdivision of
    the Jesus cult has found an ingenious way around this difficulty. 
    The United Church of God (an offshoot of the sect founded by
    Herbert W. Armstrong) argues that Jesus died on a Wednesday afternoon
    (just before Passover) and rose on a Saturday afternoon.  I do not
    recommend any of the subdivisions of the Jesus cult, but this one has
    at least managed to construct an intelligent argument.

    For details, see The Good Friday - Easter Sunday Question.

  • High Society

    (See previous entry,
    on Francis L. Kellogg)

    More bookmarks, in the spirit of
     
    Hemingway rather than Fitzgerald,
     from the date of Kellogg's death--

    New York State lottery
    on April 6, 2006:

    Mid-day: 338
     Evening: 323

    From A Flag for Sunrise, page 338:

    "She seemed, superficially, to have
    thrown every grain of her energy
    into the driving.... She was stone
    beautiful, he thought; to his eye
    outrageously and provocatively
    beautiful...."

    Related material:

    Compare with Grace Kelly driving

    Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief"

    and Frank Sinatra in "High Society."

    Those who prefer a different sort
    of high may also prefer a different
    page in A Flag for Sunrise: 323.

    "He was very high, higher than he
    had ever been.  His thoughts
    twisted off into spools,
    arabesques, snatches of
    music."

     Related material:

    "Harrowing," from

    Holy Saturday, 2003.

  • For the Late
    Francis L. Kellogg

    Kellogg is said to have lived
    "at the epicenter of
    New York City society."
    Here, in his honor, is
    a social bookmark--

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    Princeton University,
    Latin 338:
    Latin Prose Fiction

    "To study the two surviving novels
    in classical Latin,
    Petronius' Satyricon and
    Apuleius' Metamorphoses,
     as works of literary genius,
    as major influences
    in Western fiction, and as
    documents of
    contemporary
    society."

    We may imagine Kellogg in Heaven
    returning to college for a version of
    this course taught by Petronius,
    Apuleius, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • Last Temptation:

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    "Little Red Ridin' Hood,
         You sure are lookin' good...."

    See also today's Log24
    guestbook entries.

  • Meanwhile, back at
     Coffin Castle...

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  • A Coffin for Passover

  • Eternal

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

    "Eternal
    truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for
    every new social situation."

    -- AP, Today in History,
       apparently quoted from an address
       at the University of Pennsylvania,
       Sept. 20, 1940

    Related material:
     
    Gravity's Rainbow, the beginning of page 373*:

    "white and geometric capital before the destruction"

    Gravity's Rainbow    , the end of page 373*:

    "Slothrop was going into high school when FDR was starting out in the
    White House.  Broderick Slothrop professed to hate the man, but
    young Tyrone thought he was brave."

    See also the Log24 entry
    for Dec. 20, 2003 --
    White, Geometric, and Eternal --
    and the entry for 8 PM on
    the feast of St. John Paul II --
    Miracle, April 2, 2006.

    * Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
       edition of 1995, copyright 1973
       by Thomas Pynchon.