Mr. Gibson's longtime producer, Steve McEveety, told Ms. Noonan that "The Passion" had been screened "at the pope's pad," after which John Paul declared of its account of the crucifixion, "It is as it was".
(It seems proudest of its account of what is least interesting — marriages, girlfriends, grooming habits — and is all but silent on the music).
China's most popular microblogging site has said it expects 60% of its account holders to have registered accurate details about themselves by a state-imposed deadline.
Sprint Nextel, one of the nation's largest marketers, said yesterday that it had placed the creative part of its account in review.
Nextel Communications has dismissed its incumbent agency, Mullen in Wenham, Mass., by eliminating it from a review for the creative portion of its account, with billings estimated at $150 million.
JetBlue Airways said yesterday that it had placed in review the creative and media parts of its account, with spending estimated at $25 million.
Glastonbury has already spent more than $10 million of its account on open space.
Subway Restaurants has narrowed a review for the creative and strategic planning parts of its account to four finalists.
In addition, Baidu was locked out of its account - thus precluding the re-routing of traffic to Baidu's website.
"Call it Yankees 1, Rochester 0," The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle said in the first paragraph of its account today.
■ Regis University, Denver, named TDA_Boulder, Boulder, Colo., as agency of record, handling the creative and media parts of its account.
