Posted on 05/16/2006 7:12:29 AM PDT by Grendel9
Tom Hanks and other stars of "The Da Vinci Code" left London for the much-anticipated movie's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France, aboard a special Eurostar train.
The train, repainted with the face of the Mona Lisa, was hoping to enter the record books by making the longest international non-stop rail journey on the 1,421-kilometre (883-mile) route.
Dan Brown, who wrote the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code", joined the film version's director Ron Howard and actors Hanks, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina and Paul Bettany on the journey to the southern French coast.
The film was to open the 59th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night. The festival runs until May 28.
Religious critics claim that "The Da Vinci Code"'s theme -- that Jesus Christ had children with Mary Magdalene and their bloodline continues -- is blasphemous.
See my post #90.
Its a typical liberal argument to compare the Muslims rioting, killing over the cartoons over the sensible, calm , peaceful calls of protests and boycott. Most sensible can see that there is no comparision.
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