Posted by jench at 207.177.89.121 on October 15, 1999 at 10:03:47:
Quindlen's column in Oct. 18 issue of Newsweek, last page: She starts by talking about the brouhaha over the Brooklyn Museum and then gets to Kevin in the sixth paragraph. I believe you can get this online, I'll try to set up a link.
"Can the uproar over director Kevin Smith's funny new film "Dogma" be far behind? It is easy to imagine the bloodless incendiary descriptions: "a film in which one character admits to being sexually aroused after kissing a female God,and a black apostle suggests that the evangelists were racist." You can see the pickets in your head, hear the criticisms-- "anti-Catholic! Blasphemous!"--by people who have not seen the movie, which happens to be outrageous, profane, and quite devout. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but there sure are a lot of people willing to carry on about unexamined art.