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Unholy Alliances.(Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code)

The New Yorker

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"The Da Vinci Code"--both the 2003 novel and the 2006 movie--mesmerized audiences with puzzles and bloody horrors, while purporting to edify them with talk of religion and art history. Yet one element in the movie broke through the pretense--the sight of an actor having a good time. Ian McKellen, as Sir Leigh Teabing, an expert on the Holy Grail, wriggled his thick eyebrows and let out his mighty baritone in torrents of expository fervor. Like Laurence Olivier shouting in merriment forty years ago in "The Shoes of the Fisherman," McKellen was signalling to us that the material was rot. Sir Leigh explained that an extraordinary secret about Jesus had been hushed up for ...

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