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...sensed her mother was less than devout: "She used just to drop us and leave." So on her passing they chose Sydney celebrant John Hill to conduct the service, which featured speeches from June's two sons, a song from one of her granddaughters, many references to her great passion - gardening - and none to God. About 100 people attended the service. "And many of them told us how wonderful they thought it was," says Leevers. "We know Mum would have approved...
...people don't understand that for these guys we're playing against, a win versus the U.S.A. would be one of the greatest things that ever happened to them," says Wade. "It's not like I'm rooting for them, but it's interesting to understand their passion. In order to win, we have to come out every night and try to match that. I won't lie. It's very hard to do." It would be a lot easier if they could shoot...
...that his licensees might kill his hardware business--although, even if they do, RIM still has a healthy software and services business, which brings in close to one-third of its revenues. BlackBerry's success has made Lazaridis wealthy enough to donate more than $100 million to his other passion--quantum computing research--at the University of Waterloo, where the former dropout is now chancellor. One more reason for techies to give him the thumbs-up. --By Mark Halper...
...religious film had virtually disappeared. Today, The Passion aside, the genre exists only in niche markets: Mormon films (Ryan Little's Saints and Soldiers, Richard Dutcher's God's Army), well crafted and proudly square; and Rapture movies (The Moment After, Caught in the Rapture), which announce a personal and earthly apocalypse. Both types of film usually fly under the radar of studios, critics and audiences...
...Media helps sell Hollywood films to Christian tastemakers. He pitches media outlets like Catholic Digest and The 700 Club and has created sermons and Bible-study guides and marketed such movies as The Lord of the Rings, Signs, The Rookie and, yes, Elf. "The ground was softened before The Passion," says Bock. "There are hundreds of Christian critics and Jewish writers and ministers who are writing about films." And millions of the faithful who see them. A July 2004 study by George Barna, the Gallup of born-again religion, shows that Christian Evangelicals are among the most frequent moviegoers. "Being...