Monday, April 02, 2007
Jesus Sells
I'm watching a documentary on PBS about sister Aimee. She created one of the first ever mega-churches in L.A. in 1921 when she built the Angelus Temple that would hold 5,000 people, and broadcast her sermons on the radio. She was penticostal and got involved in politics, and founded the Church of the Four Square Gospel. Then she mysteriously dissapeared in 1926, lost at sea. It's debated if she staged her own dissapearence or was kidnapped, but she did return to L.A. after walking out of the desert of Mexico, and became the focus of a mediated trial.
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I saw some of this PBS show last night too. I was trying to get the least fuzzy picture possible on the TV before Brian got home to watch Ohio State get spanked by Florida in the final NCAA game last night. After I arranged my rabbit ears in the best spot, I did some channel surfing. I didn't really want to watch the game by myself. I notice after Sister Aimee's story ended that next time on "Stories of America" (or whatever program it was) they will be showing Jonestown: the life and death of the People's Temple - the very documentary that the McMüllers saw with wife and man last year.
Why didn't Jonestown get nominated for an Oscar? I thought it was as good a film as An Inconvenient Truth and Jesus Camp.
I saw the Jonestown preview too... I wonder if they've cut it down to fit the 1 hour format.
I feel like it wasn't really picked up by a distributer and so it didn't show the amount of times required to be nominanted for an oscar.
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