|  Hollywood Jesus Newsletter #130
Pop Culture from a Spiritual Point of View
Oct 14, 2005
Greetings from David Bruce, Web Master
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ELIZABETHTOWN Musical Bible Study Guide
Attention HJers,
ELIZABETHTOWN OPENED TODAY! Thousands have already downloaded the Free Elizabethtown Musical Bible Study Guide at HJ! It is our largest response ever. Feel free to download a copy for yourself or your group. I recommend the Word doc version, because it contains a ton of great internet links.
--David
A Musical Bible Study Guide
(Word doc download) THE BEST OPTION.
A Musical Bible Study Guide
(PDF download)
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—9. Spiritual Connections
(A Musical Bible Study Guide)
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 ABOUT DADS
Review by MICHAEL SMITH
In Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe reminisces about his father who died in 1989. The filmmaker lost his dad while resting on the laurels of his success with his directorial debut of Say Anything.
One thing Crowe excels at is the ability to communicate how he’s feeling, and in this film he performs a great service to the average guy: expertly displaying the surrealism of a parent's death.
—Continued on the blog
"A love letter to America"
Article by DARREL MANSON
I n the production notes for his film Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe is quoted, “When I was a lot younger and writing for Rolling Stone, I’d be in a place like Arkansas or Oklahoma or Texas and fans would come up to me and say, ‘Why doesn’t your magazine write about people here?’” Now that he makes films, he has made a film that captures the people of America’s heartland.
Producer Paula Wagner says, “It seems really like almost a love letter to America.” It is the story of a man who has to go to Kentucky after his father died suddenly. There he meets the extended family that he’s really never known. The people of his family and the wider community of Elizabethtown are real people: people with faults, people who care, people who hurt, people with dreams (or who have lost dreams) -- people who live day by day.
—Continued on the blog
 IN THE ARMS OF STRANGERS
Review by DARREL MANSON
I recently read that Jonathan Sachs, the chief rabbi of Great Britain has noted that the Hebrew Scriptures include one commandment to love one’s neighbor, but thirty-six commandments to love or care for strangers.
In Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, Drew, a young man fresh off a major failure, travels to Kentucky, where his father has suddenly died, to make arrangements to bring his remains home to Oregon. Along the way he is cared for and loved by a collection of strangers: his father’s extended family whom he doesn’t know, a stewardess who sees her life as helping others (but needs someone to help her was well), and even a wedding party at the hotel he’s staying at. Drew is very much an alien in a strange land when he arrives in Elizabethtown, but through the gifts of love shared with him by these people he doesn’t know, he gets a chance at a new life beyond his failure.
—Continued on the blog
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