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Three years ago, the film based on Dan Brown’s novel "The Da Vinci Code" was the focus of protest and controversy, with a Vatican archbishop calling for a boycott and Catholics at many levels refuting plot points. But when it comes to the new film based on a Brown novel, “Angels & Demons,” star Tom Hanks says talk of controversy is much ado about nothing
More than a dozen TV series sign off for the summer this week — or, in the case of "Prison Break," forever — but none has as much riding on it as the final two hours of this mojo-recapturing season of "Lost." Among the burning questions we hope — nah, demand! — are answered by the two-hour season finale (Wednesday, May 13, ABC, 9-11 p.m. ET): Will Jack (Matthew Fox) negate all of “Lost” history by exploding a hydrogen bomb on Quantum Leap Island Will Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) reunite, even though they’re in different decades And will Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet’s (Elizabeth Mitchell) happily-ever-after romance come to a bloody end We’ll also learn about a fabled event called “The Incident,” and, according to rumors, may be formally introduced to the mysterious Jacob
If director Ron Howard hopes religious controversy will help sell tickets to "Angels & Demons" the way it boosted his "Da Vinci Code," the Catholic Church is not playing along with his script. Howard, who premiered the follow-up in Rome, Italy, this week, said there was “residual antagonism from ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” but Vatican officials ignored the movie by not responding to suggestions that the church was offended.