From the final scene of Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972) in which Barbara Hershey, eerily prefiguring her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ, runs alongside the body of David Carradine who has been crucified against the side of a train. Which is better (or worse), the actual depiction of Christ's crucifixion or the subtextual version of the same? I'm inclined to go with subtextual, except that of course, that the subtext never stays sub- in such instances (Dead Man Walking, Whistle Down the Wind), but leaps out at the viewer as boldly as a 3-D rake or broomstick. How about neither? How about: No crucifixions?
Goodbye Paula. You will be missed.
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To the Supernatural community we have created here, and I know many of you
still show up on occasion, I have been informed of the very sad news that
Paula ...
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