Word: satans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...look back in history to see that that humanity has survived its many travails over the past millennium. Furthermore, the predictions of the French priest Raoul Glaber that Satan would be unleashed upon us and that the great Apocalypse would arrive last January have not come true. We can also take comfort in what one of our forebears thought of the passage of the last millennium, one thousand years...
...Bible As It Was, Kugel discusses Adam and Eve at length. Popular understanding associates a sinless existence and Satan with the story of Adam and Eve, but there is no mention of this in Genesis, Kugel noted...
...immensely enjoyed Little Nicky, a heartwarming story about the devil (Harvey Keitel, a bit out of place in this classless romp) and his three sons: ne'er-do-wells Adrian (Rhys Ifans) and Cassius (Tom Lister) and wimpy, innocent Nicky (Sandler). This isn't your father's hell; Satan rules justly over the condemned souls, respecting that a natural balance must exist between good and evil. However, when Adrain and Cassius make a break for the surface, the natural order of things is disrupted, and it is up to Nicky to save- well, just about everyone...
...rarely are the terms goodhearted and likeable associated with comedy. The supporting cast, however, is terrific and surprisingly quite respectable. Ifans, gleefully overacting, makes a magnificently wicked Adrain. Allen Covert, a Sandler movie staple, is also hilarious as Nicky's flamboyant roommate on earth. Rodney Dangerfield cameos as Satan's sardonic father, who spits out one-liners faster than one can shove can shove a pineapple up Hitler's posterior (don't ask; just see the movie...
...running against an anti-anti-Clinton sentiment; in other words, though plenty of people in New York State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish was made...