JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM IN TRIUMPH.
The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s controversial film
about the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, opened
in theaters across the United States on February 25, 2004.
Not coincidentally, the day was Ash Wednesday, the start
of Lent for many Christian denominations.
The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as
his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene.
Gibson’s original intention was to show The Passion of the
Christ without subtitles, in an attempt to “transcend the
language barriers with visual storytelling,” as he later
explained.
With dialogue entirely in Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic, the
film was eventually released with subtitles.
Jim Caviezel with director Mel Gibson.




Patrons stand in line for tickets for a morning showing of
"The Passion of the Christ," at Regal Cinemas in Buford, Georgia, February 25, 2004.
Demond Wilson, best known for playing Lamont on the 1970s
sitcom “Sanford and Son,” died Friday from complications of
cancer at his home in Palm Springs, California.
In 1984 Wilson was ordained as a minister in the Church of
God in Christ and was an active Christian evangelist for
much of his adult life.
Sanford and Son (1972–1977) on NBC.
Stars Demond Wilson and Redd Foxx.

On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones
lead hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at
their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South
American nation of Guyana.
Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced
punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint.
The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third
of those who perished were children.
James Warren Jones
(May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)
