Re: dogma protests

Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:28:46 -0800 (PST) 

Saw "Dogma" and loved it. I went to a private
christian school for elementary school. My mom took me
to church since I was little. My grandman used to take
me to catholic mass sometimes when she was in the
country. After 6th grade, I went to a public
highschool, started hanging out with the wrong crowd,
but I kept going to church. For me, "Dogma" hit a
little too close to home, but I love Kevin Smith's
work. I met him and Jason Mewes(aka Jay) in San Diego,
and Kevin Smith said he regrets doing "Mallrats." I've
heard of the "Six degrees of kevin bacon" theory, I
wonder if there's a six degrees of J.D. Salinger? lol

--- depressed@collegemail.com wrote:
> Has anyone on the list seen the new Kevin Smith
> movie Dogma?
> The Catholic League has been protesting a lot,
> telling people not to see it.
> I haven't seen it, but I've read the script on the
> internet and I think it's 
> great, says a lot of things that are true. It's as
> if catholic people can't 
> stand people pointing out the stupid things in the
> bible. What's your view on 
> censorship? I know this has nothing to do with
> salinger, but hey, you were 
> talking about australian movies. And censorship,
> catcher being banned, 
> salinger, err... that's kind of a link. Or maybe
> not.
> 
> Still, I started thinking, if this was a movie about
> muslims, or allah or 
> something, and made a lot of fun of their religion,
> everyone would probably go 
> crazy and say the moviemakers were bigots and
> racists or something. 
> It's the same thing as it's ok to make fun of white
> people, but if you make fun 
> of black or asian people you're a racist. I've seen
> a lot of black stand-up 
> comedians make fun of white people, but never a
> white one making fun of black 
> people. And I'm not at all a racist or a
> white-supremist, I just started 
> thinking about this. Were there any black people in
> salinger's stories? I don't 
> remember. (There, tied it nicely to salinger ;) 
> 
> -Grant-
> 
> 
> "And then he spun a twisted tale
>  about a child who cried his name so many times
>  that even when he yelled, no one ever came"
>                                   (grant lee
> buffalo)
> 
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