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The Passion of Victoria Osteen
A flight attendant's smackdown with the wife of mega-preacher Joel Osteen inspires a whole new set of commandments.
By Rich Connelly
City Pages
Your Field Guide to the RNC
Today Denver, tomorrow the Twin Cities.
By Matt Snyders and Bradley Campbell
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Star Power
A country musician rescues Waylon Jennings' tour bus from the scrap heap.
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Serrano's Second Movement
The provocateur who brought you "Piss Christ" pinches off a new concept.
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Judgment Days
Continued from page 1
Published on February 27, 2008
It was too much to take in then, and is all but incomprehensible now. According to the trades, Morgen's deliberately ahistorical treatment is a dry run for Steven Spielberg's planned Trial of the Chicago 7 — to be scripted by Aaron Sorkin, with Sacha Baron Cohen and possibly Will Smith as Abbie and Bobby. Schindler's List gave the Holocaust a happy ending, and Saving Private Ryan reduced World War II to a single mission, so why not recast the inexplicable convulsions of the late '60s in terms of personality? From bloody tragedy to savage farce to starstruck myth.
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