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• Passions collide over movie about Jesus' last day | So far, 300 religious leaders, scholars and cultural critics — Catholic, Jewish and Protestant — have screened the film since mid-June (USA Today)
  
  
• Gibson film 'fuels hate mail' | Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the center had already received dozens of hate letters and calls he said were prompted by advance screening of the Gibson-directed film The Passion (BBC)
  
  
• Jesus film ignites passions months before it opens | It has spawned a ruckus of religious intensity (The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• ADL doesn't share in Gibson's 'Passion' (The Hollywood Reporter)
  
  
• Mel's film stirs more "Passion" (E!)
  
  
• Group sees anti-Semitism in Gibson film | The Anti-Defamation League Monday called on Mel Gibson to modify his controversial film on the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ to make it "free of any anti-Semitic message" (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Also: ADL voices concerns on Gibson's 'Passion' (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Jewish group says Gibson's 'Passion' will fuel hate (Reuters)
  
  
• Gibson film ignites passion, irony | What if it's true that some Jews were culpable in Jesus' crucifixion? (Jonah Goldberg)
  
  
• Gibson's 'Passion' hearing whispers of anti-Semitism | "We still have grave concerns," Rabbi Eugene Korn, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Office of Interfaith Affairs in New York, said as he left the private screening (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Gibson gives select 'Passion' screenings | On Friday it was shown in Houston to an audience that included for the first time an official from the Anti-Defamation League (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mel Gibson screens 'Passion' for Houston group (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Stadium stirred by 'Passion' preview | A Harvest Crusade crowd in Anaheim gets a four-minute glimpse of Mel Gibson's provocative film about Christ (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Don't worry folks. We only have to endure eight more months of this argument before the film finally reaches theatres and we can decide for ourselves.

Next week: Open Range, Uptown Girls, and Freddy vs. Jason. And … this is a wild guess … probably something more about The Passion.

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