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Bombies is an one-hour documentary now airing on Public Broadcasting Service television stations across the US chronicling the deadly legacy of cluster bombs in Laos. The film highlights Mennonite Central Committee’s work with cluster bomb removal. Dropped by the millions in Laos between 1964 and 1973, cluster bombs are designed to explode on impact. But 5% to 30% of these bombs fail to explode when first dropped. Like landmines, cluster bombs remain active for years. MCC was active in cluster bomb removal in Laos and continues to work for an international ban on these devices, used most recently by the US in Afghanistan. The film features, among others, former MCC Laos country representative Betty Kasdorf, a Laos surgeon whose family members were killed by cluster bombs, a bomb removal technician, and a former US soldier who helped load cluster bombs on warplanes. Produced by Jack Silberman, Bombies is a presentation of the Independent Television Service (www.itvs.org). – MCC
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, is being developed into a feature film. This is the latest of films making adaptations based on fantasy books, such as J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Lewis’s stepson Douglas Gresham will help oversee the film, which is expected to open in 2004. – Evangelical Press News Service
The Ontario Film Review Board decision to not allow the airing of the controversial French film Fat Girl has caused a furor of controversy over censorship. The film features graphic sex scenes of teenagers. The film has aired, uncut, in the US, Quebec and British Columbia. The Ontario Film Review Board has stated that if it allows graphic scenes of this nature in “art films”, it is a slippery slope for them to allow teenage child pornography. – Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, CBC
Bebo Norman’s CD Big Blue Sky has been turning up on multiple “Top 10 charts” in the US since its release on May 15, 2001. Both Amazon.com and the Dallas Morning News have ranked the album at number one. The sophomore album by Norman was ranked 7 on Baptist Press News’ “Top 10 Christian Albums of the Year” and was listed at number 6 on Christianity Today.com’s “Top 12 Christian Albums of 2001”. Big Blue Sky (Essential/Watershed) sold over 9,500 units in its first week, earning Norman a place among the top five best-selling Christian albums of the week and landing him at number four on Billboard’s “Heatseekers” chart. In addition, Norman debuted at number five on Billboard’s “Top Internet Album Sales Chart”. The only Christian artist on the chart, Norman outsold Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Mark Knopfler and Weezer. – Evangelical Press News Service
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Last modified April 12, 2002.
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