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Sangeeta, a mother of three boys, looks down on her eldest son, Dinakaran, seated, and the dog that saved his life, Selvakumar Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. Sangeeta could only carry two of her boys and had to leave Dinakaran to fend for himself when a tsunami crashed into their village on Dec. 26, 2004. Selvakumar pulled Dinakaran out of the family hut and nipped and nudged him up a hill to safety. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson )

‘Water started to go funny,’ 10-year-old recalls LONDON - A 10-year-old British girl saved 100 other tourists from the Asian tsunami having warned them a giant mass of water was on its way after learning about the phenomenon weeks earlier at school, a newspaper reported. “I was on the beach and the water started to go funny,” Tilly Smith told the Sun at the weekend from Phuket, Thailand. “There were bubbles and the tide went out all of a sudden. I recognized what was happening and had a feeling there was going to be a tsunami. I told mummy.”While...

Worldnetdaily.com Did aliens save planet in 1908? Russians say they have found spaceship debris. scientific team researching the site of the Tunguska meteorite crash of 1908 say they have found remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, report a variety of Russian news agencies. .... ....."I am fully confident and I can make an official statement that we were saved by some forces of a superior civilization," Yuri Lavbin said. "They exploded this enormous meteorite that headed towards us with enormous speed," he said. Now this great object that caused the meteorite to explode is found at last. We will continue our...

Let's keep getting the message our about this Christian-bashing film ... Mandy Moore is out there defending it saying she's "proud" to be in such a provocative film ... enjoy that ditch, Mandy, ye blind guide ... let's keep up the pressure just in case they're planning on going for more theaters over the holiday weekend ... One producer was Michael Stipe of R.E.M. a band I kinda liked, but they did a song called "Losing My Religion" ... indeed, it appears so ... Yahoo! Movies

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A new film is coming under criticism from a Christian film and television organization because it mocks Christianity and depicts those who follow Christ as foolish and irrational. According to Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian Film & Television Commission ministry, the film "Saved!" which will be released on May 28, purposely ridicules Christians. I watched the movie trailer for this film today and was saddened to see that the Christian characters are portrayed as virtual nitwits. In one scene, a girl argues that Jesus is "of course" a white man. Another Christian character, I have learned,...

WITH SAVED! having gone wide last week, the rest of America now has a chance to see Brian Dannelly's satire of life at an evangelical high school. Or, as the film's producer, Michael Stipe, put it: Saved! is "like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers." In the weeks leading up to the movie's release, United Artists, the studio behind it, nervously suggested that it thought--hoped--that Saved! would play to the same religious audience that made The Passion of the Christ such a hit. Peter Adee of MGM (UA's parent company) told...

After a weekend take of $1.3 million, "Saved!" the new Evangelical-Christian-bashing "comedy" movie is now at $6,575,000 take in 592 theaters ... fortunately most theaters avoided this "film" ... http://movies.yahoo.com/boxoffice/latest/rank.html "The Paasion" made over $370 million ... Hollywood isn't even smart enough to line their own pockets by producing movies Christians want to see ...

NEW YORK - Actress Jena Malone (news) says she doesn't feel bad about the way her new film, 'Saved' pokes fun at Christians. AP Photo   "I think it's important to poke fun at things we find really serious," the 19-year-old said in an interview with AP Radio. "I think if we applied that to things in our own lives we'd be able to take things much better." "Saved!" costarring Mandy Moore (news) and Macaulay Culkin (news), is a sharp satire of religion which takes place at the fictional American Eagle Christian High School. Malone's character, Mary, believes her figure-skater...

The scene is a packed high-school assembly. A girl band called "The Christian Jewels" has just emoted (sung is the wrong word) in front of an audience waving outstretched arms. Suddenly, Pastor Skip (Martin Donovan), principal of the school, runs onto the stage, executing a 360-degree flip. Throwing an arm towards the crowd, he shouts, "Are you down with G-O-D?" It's one of several on-target moments in Saved! (rated PG-13), a teen comedy that often viciously mocks fundamentalist/evangelical Christians. The movie is at its best when lampooning painfully forced attempts to repackage the gospel for the MTV generation and is...

<p>With "Saved!" having gone wide last week, the rest of America now has a chance to see Brian Dannelly's satire of life at an evangelical high school. Or, as the film's producer, Michael Stipe, put it: "Saved!" is "like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers."</p>

What makes a good satire? Well, for a start, satire has to be grounded in reality, so that the intended audience recognizes what’s being satirized and is able to laugh a little bit at itself—and perhaps even learn something about itself in the process. Also, it’s more effective if the satire takes a subtle approach to its subject rather than going overboard. By those standards, the new movie Saved! fails dismally. It’s supposed to be a sharp, but ultimately sympathetic satire of Christian schools. Instead, it comes off as a heavy-handed attack. The film follows a Christian high school student...

In the old days, when man struggled to scratch a living out of the dirt, when the world was wracked by plagues and pogroms, the thought of Heaven must have been much sweeter than it seems today. In our world of creature comforts and great prosperity, when we devote many hours of our lives to being entertained, when it seems the masses worship celebrities more than God, faith appears to some as more anciently foolish than ever. That's especially true if you make movies for a living. The reason Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" stood out so severely from...

Claudia Puig of USA Today asked her readers: "Have a bone to pick with bible thumpers?" She responded to her own inquiry with, "Then you'll have a divine time watching Saved!" "Saved!" is a movie tailor-made for Christian bashing. Puig herself described it as an "antidote to the lugubrious and savage piety of The Passion of the Christ." Ironically, the same media that savaged Mel Gibson's movie had these things to say about the latest flick to poke fun at fundamentalists: "Acutely perceptive and boldly hilarious satire of fundamentalist education." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "An admirable attempt to acknowledge the...

RELENTLESS POST [Tim Graham] Remember Friday’s paper whenever anyone tries to tell you that The Washington Post is not a liberal newspaper – that it’s not written by liberals, written for liberals, and if they’re lucky, written to mint new liberals. Every section of the paper today carries some evidence of liberal bias. On the front page comes the latest attempt to keep the Abu Ghraib bubble inflated: “Warner Bucks GOP Right On Probe of Prison Abuse.” Reporters Helen Dewar and Spencer Hsu describe Sen. John Warner as “a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity” with “a penchant...

'Saved!" is a satire aimed at narrow-minded Christians, using as its weapon the values of a more tolerant brand of Christianity. It is also a high school comedy, starring names from the top shelf of teenage movie The film follows the traditional pattern of many other teenage comedies. There's a clique ruled by the snobbiest and most popular girl in school, and an opposition made up of outcasts, nonconformists and rebels. We saw this formula only a few weeks ago in "Mean Girls." What's different this time is that the teen queen, Hilary Faye, is the loudest Jesus praiser at...

What do you get when you cross the village atheist with the village idiot? Saved -- the alleged comedy polluting theaters nationwide this weekend.Recall the wailing and hand-wringing that accompanied the release of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, in February. Given the hysterical reaction to Gibson’s opus, you’d think Hollywood had suddenly become an adjunct of "The 700 Club." But The Passion was an aberration that never would have been made without the influence of its famous producer/director.Saved is far more typical of the way the movie industry does religion these days. The teen sex comedy is politically...

Anyone who's concerned that Hollywood is perpetuating the divide between "Red" and "Blue" America by ignoring the concerns of tens of millions of evangelical and conservative Catholic moviegoers might be reassured to learn that the success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ has encouraged film producers to make more movies that will appeal to Christian audiences. Unfortunately, as the New York Times reports, producers are uncertain about what kinds of movies will appeal to such audiences. A first effort in this regard suggests that Hollywood still has a good deal to learn. On May 28, Saved, described as a...

A noted movie critic says the new film "Saved!" is a sad, bigoted, anti-Christian movie that mocks the Christian faith. Ted Baehr, the founder of the Christian Film & Television Commission™ ministry has come out swinging against the MGM movie, according to Assist News Service. The film is slated to be released May 28. "'SAVED!' is a hateful, politically correct movie," Baehr declared. "It is being heavily marketed to the community it mocks to lead Christian youth astray and make them resent their own faith." The movie, which stars Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin, tells the story about self-righteous Christian...

YAHOO News Caption: Pistol, a dog saved in Iraq (news - web sites) by a Marine Sgt. David Donnelly, is shown in Westfield, N.Y., Friday, April 16, 2004, where he is up for adoption. The dog was saved by Donnelly in a combat zone and then reunited with his rescuer after a long journey to America but now finds himself homeless again, after the Marine was redeployed overseas. Due to the efforts of Donnelly and Marcy Christmas of Camarillo, Calif., about 200 people have inquired about the Canaan-mix since his arrival this week at Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue in western...

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...