Et cetera More sinister than fluoridation
ET CETERA MORE SINISTER THAN FLUORIDATION - The most popular film at this year's prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, was Care of the Spitfire Grill, a drama about spiritual...
...Some executives in Hollywood are uneasy...
...Recovering quickly, however, the distributor goes on to comment on how "the movie's spiritual content could be a marketing asset...
...It's enough to make your jaw drop...
...What diabolical agenda are the producers of Care of the Spitfire Grill trying to foist on an unsuspecting American public...
...A "religious agenda" is detected by other Hollywood adepts...
...those who were troubled by the backers would not speak for the record," James writes...
...That's the spirit...
...Caryn James, movie reviewer for the New York Times, found something else about the movie equally newsworthy: It was produced by a group named Gregory Productions, owned by the Priests of the Sacred Heart...
...According to the Gregory group's mission statement, the aim is to make quality movies that reflect "the values of the Judeo-Christian tradition, in particular, love of and reverence for God...
...Imagine...
...ET CETERA MORE SINISTER THAN FLUORIDATION - The most popular film at this year's prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, was Care of the Spitfire Grill, a drama about spiritual redemption in a small Maine town starring Ellen Burstyn...
...In an article ("Film Financed by a Religious Group," February 3,1996) whose tone ran the gamut of emotions from apprehension to incredulity, James alerted Times readers to the self-evident dangers...
...One potential distributor of the film described how his "jaw dropped" and "a slight chill" went through him when he learned the religious identity of the producers...
...Not only that, but Care of the Spitfire Grill depicts Protestant characters and had a Jewish director...
Vol. 123 • February 1996 • No. 4
