From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:14:24 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Has anyone noticed that this thread has drifted afield and not bothered to
change its name? Over.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike B. [mailto:omni at omniphile.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:42 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?

At 11:55 AM 3/26/05 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>Mike B. wrote:

>> There's some about that in _Dogma_ too.  More than just a mention.  That
>> movie is one of the best ever made IMO, and well worth seeing if you

>I've heard people claim that it's "sacreligious", but I can just picture
>a conservative Catholic looking at it and saying "SEE!  SEE!  THAT'S WHY
>WE DON'T DO THAT KIND OF STUFF!"

I don't know...the new look of the church that the bishop is going for is
likely to offend any Catholic who's had a humorectomy...

I figure if they aren't going to be offended at "Eric the Viking" I don't
have to be offended at Dogma.  ;-)

>Kit has the script.  One bit that they left out in the movie was in the
>bar where they meet Serendipity.  There's a tense scene with a black
>gang, and suddenly they're all buddies.  In the script, things are just
>about to get really ugly, and Silent Bob goes to the karaoke machine and
>does a rap version of "Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert".  I was looking
>forward to hearing that.

Get the DVD.  It's on there.  They did do the scene, but it was cut.  On
the DVD it's in the "deleted scenes" section.  If you want to come over
some time I can play if for you.

>George Carlin as an Archbishop.  Chris Rock as the Apostle Rufus.
>Alanis Morisette as God.  What's not to like?

You forgot Ben Afleck and Matt Damon as angels... ;-)

-- Mike B.
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