hagiopic

[Mark Mandel]

Alomost every time I see "biopic", I mentally hear it as /baI'apIk/, rhyming
with "myopic", before catching myself.

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> I'm waiting for filio-piestipic.
>
> Joel
>
> At 8/20/2009 10:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >A biopic about a religious figure, or which treats a secular figure in a
> >worshipful manner.
> >
> >
> >1999 _Time_ (Aug. 23):  The end product is a devoted but ultimately dull
> >hagiopic [about Dorothy Dandridge].
> >
> >
> >
> >2009 Pamela Grace _The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic_
> >(Hoboken,
> >N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
> >
> >A few earlier exx., perhaps back to the 1980s, are apparently findable.
> >(Google Books is vague on this).
> >
> >
> >JL
> >
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> >Platypus"
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