EVERY ONCE AND AWHILE

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ron,

Guess they missed the boat on making a more powerful statement. I
tried to help.

dInIs

>I guess this is a sort of low-level egghorn:
>
>Hollywood offers evangelicals little satisfying fare
>  Talk about "missing the big picture." Commentary writer William Romanowski
>asks, "So what do evangelicals want from Hollywood anyway?" Well let me answer
>for you (Missing the big picture, The Forum, Feb. 6).
>
>  We want to know that our ridiculous gift of $9 per movie to the Hollywood
>big wigs is going to provide two hours of entertainment, not
>religion-bashing. (AND WE MEAN ANY RELIGION)
>We want to be able to enjoy animated movies with our children that are not
>inappropriately suggestive (AND WE MEAN NOT SUGGESTIVE OF BIGORY AND
>ETHNOCENTRISM) or full of curse words (INCLUDING THOSE WHICH DEMEAN
>GROUPS OF HUMAN BEINGS).
>  We want to watch romantic comedies that do not suggest that divorce and
>infidelity are simply steps to finding true love (AND WE MEAN TRUE
>LOVE, REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION). And yes, every once and
>awhile,
>we want to see movies based on beloved religious literature or
>themes (AND, AGAIN, WE MEAN ALL BELOVED RELIGIONS AND THEMES).
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
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preston at msu.edu

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