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There has been a lot of bloviating about Gibson’s Passion movie, but I just heard the dumbest angle ever on MSNBC. Lester Holt asked:

“Should Jesus have been played by a white man?”

WHO… GIVES… A… SHIT…

If I had my way, this is who I would like to have seen play Jesus:

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The look on Tom Delay’s face as he went to a viewing of my version of the Passion would be priceless.

*** Update ***

BTW if you want some comentary from someone who seems to know what heis talking about, Jesse and Ezra have been posting on the issue. Read them in this order: Post #1, Post #2, Post #3, Post #4, Post #5, and Post #6.

See also this TNR round-up, and check here for the reaction from someone who has actually seen the movie.

In a sort of related vein- I wonder what the reaction would have been like today to Martin Scorcese’s Last Temptation of Christ. I remember it was quite the brouhaha back in the day, and that was before the internet and cable news.

Also, for those of you who have not seen the Last Temptation of Christ, it has, IMHO, one of the greatest soundtracks of all time, Passion by Peter Gabriel. Gabriel did an amazing job with that and then the follow up Passion Sources, and it spawned (I believe) Gabriel’s Real World label. If you are interested in this sort of music, I higly recommend it. My personal favorites are the Musicians of the Nile, The Drummers of Burundi, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Mustt Mustt (many of you know him from his work with Eddie Vedder on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack), The Afro Celt Sound System, and Sheila Chandra. Check out this label- it really iis fantastic.

BTW- I would be remiss in this already way off topic ramble if I failed to mention Water Lily Acoustics, which is also a spectacular label and one of my absolute favorites.

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  3. 3.

    M. Scott Eiland

    You know–it’s terrifying concepts like Al Roker turning out to be my personal savior that have made me quite content to be an agnostic, thank you very much. :-)

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    triticale

    And I, in turn, second the mention of Water Lily Acoustics. Everything I’ve heard from them has been excellent, and “Kambara Music in Native Tongues” is simply awesome.

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    Dave_Violence

    Are there any Yemenite Jewish actors out there? If so, they’d be more appropriate than whitey to portay Jesus. Otherwise, since Jesus was a Hebrew, folks, his line comes from Shem, that is: he is an “Arab.”

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