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Article: `Hail Mary' bedevils aldermen
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 17, 1986
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Ald. Aloysius A. Majerczyk (12th) assured fellow members of the
City Council he wasn't asking for censorship.
But there stood Majerczyk, a former policeman, leading the
charge against the continued showing of Jean Luc-Godard's film, "Hail
Mary."
"I'm not going to repeat the many reasons why the movie `Hail
Mary' should not be shown in Chicago or anywhere else for that
matter," Majerczyk growled.
Majerczyk was, of course, playing to a packed gallery of
followers who were in the Council chambers to register their support
for him.
He went on to point out that Godard's modern dress portrayal of
the Blessed Virgin's story is blasphemous.
"The story of the Blessed Virgin," he said, "is ...