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Marketing Outrage How Miramax uses prejudice to sell its product By John Herreid The phone rang, and I picked it up. “Hello. This is Lori Johnson from Miramax. Is this Ignatius Press?” “Yes.” “Good! Can I talk to you about a movie we have showing in your area? It’s a really beautiful film about faith and Catholic culture in Ireland.” “Ok.” “We can send you passes to a press screening of the film. It’s about a convent of nuns in the 1960’s…” “What’s the name?” “The Magdalene Sisters.” STARK THEMES A quick online search showed that The Magdalene Sisters is...

http://www.catholicleague.org MOVIE REVIEWERS BASH CATHOLIC CHURCHCatholic League president William Donohue commented today on how movie reviewers assessed “The Magdalene Sisters”:   “Imagine an anti-Semitic director who admits he packed into one movie every anti-Semitic theme he could draw on and then gets an anti-Semitic duo to distribute it.  Next imagine film critics taking the anti-Semitic propaganda at face value and then offering anti-Semitic remarks in their reviews.  Fat chance.  For example, there will never be a movie about Jewish slumlords in Harlem or Jewish managers of black entertainers in the 20th century.  If there were, and if it were to...