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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Belushi Brothers and the Church's Responsibility to the Faithful

I applaud the Church's embrace of the Blues Brothers, but the Church needs to speak with unmistakable clarity in this area and underscore that this embrace extends only to the 1980 film.  The unsuspecting Catholic might be misled by the Church's statement into renting Blues Brothers 2000, which could place the believer's very soul at risk.  More broadly, the Church should specify that while John Belushi was an artistic genius, any project to which his brother Jim is attached should be avoided at all costs.  These projects, under the soothing guise of a laugh track, suck the viewer's very notion of beauty right out of them.  I'm not sure if these matters are within the CDF's jurisdiction, but an "Index of Forbidden Sitcoms" may not be such a bad idea, and my first nominee for the list would be According to Jim

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