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Triumph is Born of Struggle – An Important Truth, as Seen in a Movie Outtake By: Msgr. Charles PopeSome years ago, the movie Bruce Almighty was near the top of the box office charts. Unfortunately, one of my favorite scenes was cut from the released version of the movie. I was only able to see it in the “deleted scenes and outtakes” section of the DVD version. Why they deleted the scene is unfathomable to me, since I think it really decodes the whole movie.The movie features a prideful man (Bruce) who has complaints about how God runs the universe....

If you've been paying attention, you might already know two things about "Evan Almighty." One: The family film about a congressman (Steve Carell) called upon by God to build an ark wound up costing an insane amount of money, something on the level of $200 million. And two: Because it's ostensibly a modern-day Noah story, Universal Pictures has been courting the church crowd, an audience it distinctly avoided with its last movie, "Knocked Up." Both bits of information are relevant because "Evan" might just be the most schizophrenic movie ever made. Yes, you could look at the film as the...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian authorities have banned the Jim Carrey film "Bruce Almighty," saying the comedy infringes on God's sacredness. Madkour Thabit, who heads the state-run censorship body responsible for audio and visual productions, criticized the movie Friday for featuring "actors playing the role of God." "The name of the movie - 'Bruce Almighty' - indicates that there is someone who can do anything and everything," Thabit said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Such traits belong only to God." In the film, Carrey plays a TV reporter who gets a shot at being God for a...

Egypt Bans Jim Carrey God Flick CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 7, 2003   Morgan Freeman as The Almighty in a scene from the movie "Bruce Almighty."  (Photo: AP) "The name of the movie -- 'Bruce Almighty' -- indicates that there is someone who can do anything and everything. Such traits belong only to God."Madkour Thabi Egypt Film Censor   Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston in "Bruce Almighty."  (Photo: UNIVERSAL PICTURES)   (AP) Authorities have banned the American film "Bruce Almighty,'' starring Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman, from being shown here in Egypt, saying it infringes on God's sacredness, the state film...

Just when you think that the pile of hoglsop from hollywood cannot possibly get worse, they mistakenly release a movie with an actual message. "Bruce Almighty" starring comedian Jim Carrey features a man who feels like everything in his life has gone wrong, and has decided to blame it on God. Well God decides to teach him a lesson in how we as humans can royally mess things up by donating His powers as well as responsibility. Overwhelmed he eventually comes to realise that things are better off with the real God in charge. Please go see this movie with...

A lesson of sorts from 'Bruce' By Pamela Hale Staff writer For years Hollywood has made movies about God. And while some have followed scriptural accounts of God, many have deceived audiences about who and what God is. There are those who see him as a God of love, who accepts everything whether or not it is an abomination. Others see him as a God of wrath who, with the wave of a hand, can destroy the world. I believe he's both. He is a God of love, who does accept everything, except sin. At the same time he is...

Holy cow, Bruce, have you seen the new Jim Carrey flick? What do you get when a movie crosses a) respect and reverence in a cinematic portrayal of the God most Americans worship and b) fart jokes? You get $135 million bucks in less than two weeks, that's what. "Bruce Almighty" is the movie that seriously asks the question: What if God were one of us? Apparently what we would get is a Jimmy Stewart wannabe who lassoes the moon for his girlfriend, only to inadvertently cause flash flooding halfway around the world due to what scientists call unusual...

Posted on Wed, May. 28, 2003 'Bruce Almighty' phone number annoys many MITCH STACY Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. - A lot of mortals who happen to share God's telephone number - or at least the one He uses in the new movie "Bruce Almighty" - have spent days now taking calls from curious dialers, snickering cranks and desperate souls. In the hit movie, a TV newsman played by Jim Carrey is endowed by God with divine powers, allowing him to perform such feats as parting a bowl of tomato soup like the Red Sea. God's phone number is repeatedly displayed...

Dawn Jenkins isn't in the new Jim Carrey comedy "Bruce Almighty." Her phone number, however, is - and that's a problem for the Pinellas Park glassmaker. In the film, the nation's top movie over the weekend, Carrey stars as a regular guy who receives the powers of God (played by Morgan Freeman) after complaining too much about life. God tries to reach Bruce Nolan, Carrey's character, by repeatedly leaving a phone number on his pager. But instead of the usual 555 prefix most television shows and films use in phone numbers, God's number is a common exchange - too common...

Fridays box office totals fresh off the press:'Bruce Almighty' 20.4 million 'Matrix Reloaded' 11.2 million 'Daddy Day Care' 3.3 millionX Men United 2.5 millionThe In Laws 1.93 million

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