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Kevin Smith's movie Dogma opens to Catholic protest...
NAME: Kevin ("Silent Bob") Smith OCCUPATION: Sanctimonious director BEST PUNCH: To promote Dogma, Smith's new film, which some Catholics have alleged satirizes religion, the movie's distributor ran ads with the slogan "Get Touched by an Angel...
Whew! Any incoming? Taking on Lynch and Buffett at their own game is perilous sport. They're the nearest thing to omniscience Wall Street has to offer. But I've been thinking a lot about both men's no-tech dogma since last spring. That's when Buffett told thousands at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting cum Buffettfest that he won't buy tech stocks because he doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point...
Smith gets steamed when he thinks about the Dogma protests. "Every week I go to church, and sooner or later the priest makes a joke! How come a priest can mix religion and jokes, but if I do it, I'm anti-Catholic? That just burns my ass, because I'm out there trying to get people to think about God. I am working the good cause--and I'm anti-Catholic? I tithe! I don't bend down and tie my shoe when the basket comes around...
...retelling of the beginning of modern navigation. It was also one of the surprise publishing successes of 1995. Her new book adds a little-known personal dimension to the life of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Pisan mathematician and astronomer who was tried, convicted and humbled for challenging church dogma that placed the earth at the center of the universe...