To help users create these magazines, Flipboard is launching a new one-screen Passion Picker where users can identify the topics they want to follow, then further customize their magazines by adding things like specific publications, YouTube feeds and Twitter hashtags and accounts (tweets from topic experts are included in each magazine).
Gibson screened Passion for pastors and congregations, creating a grassroots momentum that paid off massively when the movie made it to shopping mall cineplexes.
Jane Fonda's off-screen passions have been as varied as the antiwar movement and aerobics.
Mr. Gibson has been screening "The Passion" for a few weeks for friendly audiences, but has refused to show it to his critics, including members of Jewish groups and biblical scholars.
WALTER READE THEATRE Following a screening of "Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm," a documentary video about the history of the vibrator, its makers, Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick, join Dell Williams, the founder of the store Eve's Garden, and the writers Rachel P. Maines and Betty Dodson for a discussion about the mechanics and politics of pleasure.
A few months ago, to garner a little extra publicity and signal the book's coming off-screen incarnation, "Passions" producers filmed Ms. Friedman eagerly receiving Timmy's call at her New York office and offering to pay for the diary.
He was talking about these icons on the screen with a passion that these icons were going to change the universe.
The writer attended a private screening of "The Passion," Gibson's unfinished film about the final hours and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, at the Sony Building this summer.
A more recent private screening of "The Passion" was attended by another conservative ideologue, the columnist Robert Novak, who was born to Jewish parents and converted to Catholicism.
