NBC BROADCASTS "NOAH'S ARK" MINISERIES
by David Buckna
Updated: May 15, 1999
http://www.nbc.com/tvcentral/mms/noahsark/
For info about the CBS miniseries,
"Jesus", go to:
http://www.rae.org/cbsjesus.html
"It ['Noah's Ark'] will be the biggest thing ever done for television."
-Jon Voight, in an NBC promo
Forty days...
Two nights.
The end of the world is coming.
Take cover.
Noah's Ark.
NBC this May.
[NBC promo, February 28, 1999]
Cast:
Jon Voight (Noah)
Mary Steenburgen (Naamah)
F. Murray Abraham (Lot)
Carol Kane (Lot's Wife)
James Coburn (The Peddler)
Mark Bazeley (Shem)
Jonathan Cake (Japheth)
Alexis Denisof (Ham)
Emily Mortimer (Esther)
Sydney Poitier (Ruth)
Sonya Walger (Miriam)
Executive Producer: Robert Halmi,
Sr.
Producer: Stephen Jones
Writer: Peter Barnes
Director: John Irvin
Production Designer: Leslie Binns
Director of Photography: Mike Molloy, BSC, ACS
Editor: Ian Crafford
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Casting: Lynn Kressel, CSA (US), Maura Fay & Assoc. (Australia), Joyce
Nettles (UK)
Costume Designer: Marion Boyce
Visual Effects Supervisor: Ernie Farino
Original soundtrack available on Varese Sarabande CD
Filmed on location in Melbourne, Australia
Produced for Babelsberg International Film Producktion
Publicity: Patrick Communications (Los Angeles)
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Photos
http://www.hollywood.com/pressroom/premieres/varsityblues/photo_jon.html
http://members.tripod.com/~Monkees23/jvoight/noah.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/~Monkees23/jvoight/noahcast.jpg
http://discoveromaha.com/partners/wowt/whatson/noahsark.html
http://asylum.netscape.com/tv/noahs_ark/cast.html#top
This month's feature article:
http://detnews.com/1999/entertainment/9905/01/05010037.htm
Robert Halmi Sr., the chairman of Hallmark Entertainment in New York, has made nearly 200 TV movies and miniseries during the past two decades, and was the subject of a feature article in Time magazine in 1997:
"Forget Cliffs Notes; Mini-series king Robert Halmi is now bringing The Odyssey to TV. What's next? The Inferno?" Time magazine, May 12, 1997
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970512/atele.forget_clifs.html
Hallmark Entertainment Chairman Robert Halmi, Sr., To Receive Founders Award at International Emmy Gala
http://www.intlemmys.org/news/pr/hallmark_ent.htm
Meet Robert Halmi, Sr.: Man, Myth, Legend
http://www.nywift.org/programs/mbreak.html
On Friday, March 20, 1998 Inside Daily Variety included the following entertainment news:
Voight Boards
Ark
New York (Variety) - Hot from conquering the seas with a whale of a rating for the USA Network Patrick Stewart-starrer "Moby Dick," Robert Halmi Sr.'s Hallmark Entertainment is headed back to the water with "Noah," a retelling of the Noah's ark story that will star Oscar winner Jon Voight. Hallmark has set up the four-hour epic at NBC to air during the May sweeps in 1999. Reuters/Variety
http://sharon.kirchgruppe.de/Kirch/zoom/Preview/html/speciale.htm
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On March 31, 1998 Variety columnist Army Archerd reported:
http://www.variety.com/search/article.asp?articleID=1117469304
Robert Halmi suffered a broken hip while searching locations for "Crime and Punishment" in Budapest. But the unstoppable Halmi, still on crutches, wings here Wednesday to dine with Jon Voight and talk about their upcoming teaming on "Noah" to film in Australia. Voight has been busy researching the role between takes on his just-wound "The General" in which he reteamed with John Boorman for the first time since "Deliverance," in Ireland. After Australia, Halmi heads to Morocco to set sites for "Cleopatra." His many other projected projects include "Murder in the Rue Morgue," "Huckleberry Finn," "The Life of P.T. Barnum," and a year's pre-production with the Henson Creature Shop on "Animal Farm" - which may have input also on "Noah's" menagerie.
[Note from David: According to someone at the Jim Henson Creature Shop who answered my enquiry: "We were contacted about it at our Los Angeles shop, but there isn't enough time left in the pre-production schedule for us to build animals for it, a job that generally takes about six months."]
On April 29, 1998 Archerd reported:
http://www.variety.com/search/article.asp?articleID=1117470250
Pre-production starts on "Noah's Ark" in Melbourne next week, with a 14-16 week sked in the same $25-30 million budget range. John Irvin directs. Jon Voight, who will play Noah, phoned from Brussels, where he's starring in a remake of the classic "A Dog of Flanders" for director Kevin Brodie, with Jason Robards and Cheryl Ladd. ...May 6, Voight, who completed "The General" for John Boorman pre-"Flanders," next heads to Austin, Texas, for his football coaching role in "Varsity Blues" before donning his beard as Noah.
On May 15, 1998 Archerd reported:
http://www.variety.com/search/article.asp?articleID=1117470890
But next week, Irvin's off to Australia to direct Robert Halmi's "Noah's Ark," starring Jon Voight. Today, Irvin looks at John Huston's "The Bible," which boasts the flood as one of its major sequences. Huston played Noah and was also the voice of God. (Who better?) Noah's wife was played by Ava Gardner. Mary Steenburgen is set for that role in the NBC version. F. Murray Abraham will play Lot. The ark will float in a giant tank Halmi had built for "Moby Dick" in a studio 20 miles south of Melbourne. Huston's ark for "The Bible" was built on a stage at Cinecitta in 1965. I visited Huston (as director, Noah and God!) and his live menagerie on that set - it was a sight not to be forgotten. Halmi and Irvin will have 800 animals - arriving two by two, natch, in their version. But many will be created by CGI. "We will also have several animals which are now extinct. And, the way we are destroying our environment, there may be even more extinct creatures." He says their film will point out how God's rage with man brought on the deluge - a lesson he hopes will be learned from this "Noah's Ark."
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Note from David:
Lot will be among the biblical characters portrayed in the miniseries. A straightforward reading of Genesis shows Abram and Lot were contemporaries (eg. Genesis 12:4-5; 13:8), but is it possible Abram and Lot were contemporaries of Noah? Genesis 9:28 states: "After the flood Noah lived 350 years. Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died."
One view says by using the genealogy in Genesis 11, we can calculate Abram was born about 291 years after the flood. Genesis 25:7 states Abram (now called Abraham) died at 175 years of age, so it seems reasonable Abraham and Lot were contemporaries of Noah.
However, James B. Jordan, writing in "A Chronological and Calendrical Commentary on the Pentateuch," chapter 8, holds a different view:
"Genesis 11:26 says that Terah lived 70 years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Compare to Genesis 5:32, which says that Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. We know from Genesis 11:10 that Shem was 100 years old two years after the Flood, which came in Noah's 600th year, so that Shem was obviously not the firstborn. He was born when Noah was 502, even though as patriarchy-bearer he is listed first. According to Genesis 10:21, Japheth was the eldest. That makes Ham the youngest.
"By means of parallelism, we can suggest that of Terah's sons, Haran was the eldest, born when Terah was 70 years old, and Nahor the youngest.
"Nahor married one of Haran's daughters (Genesis 12:29, and Haran died well before the other two sons did (Genesis 12:28)
"Acts 7:4 tells us that Abram did not leave the city of Haran until Terah had died. Genesis 12:4 says that Abram was 75 at that time. Genesis 11:32 says that Terah died at 205. Thus, Abram was born when Terah was 130."
According to Jordan, if you calculate the ages from Genesis, you find that Noah died in the year of the world (anno mundi) 2006, while Abram was born in 2008. Thus, Jordan says Abram was born two years after Noah died, and Shem (Noah's middle son) died in 2158, ten years after Isaac married Rebekah.
Jordan says many older commentators suggest Shem may have been Melchizedek, the king of Salem (Jerusalem) who blessed Abram (Genesis 14:18-20)
Genealogy: Adam to Joseph [chart]
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/figures/100.html
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/faq/adam.shtml
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Will the miniseries show the animals all arriving "two by two", as Archerd suggests? It's interesting to note that in Genesis 7:2-3, God instructs Noah: "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth."
As Halmi states that the miniseries will include "several animals which are now extinct", I wonder if dinosaurs will be seen:
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-ark1.html
http://www.parentcompany.com/great_dinosaur_mistake/tgdmtoc.htm
http://www.rae.org/dragons.html
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From the May 16, 1998 edition of TV HOST magazine:
"Talk to the animals: Long before Dr. Doolittle, there was Noah, the righteous man commanded by God to build an ark and save the species of the time from a flood of biblical proportions. He'll be the hero of producer Robert Halmi's next big project.
Halmi, who wowed TV audiences with Gulliver's Travels, Odyssey, and most recently, Merlin, promises that his Noah "will outdo all of them. At one point, you will see 600 animals lined up to go on board the ark."
Jon Voight will play Noah. Halmi says that while spectacular special effects can make winners of small stories, "In television, the stories cannot be shallow, or they won't work." Noah, says Halmi is "about very important things. It could be taken from the headlines today. God got mad at us because we behaved very badly, lost all morality, fooled around, didn't think of nature, and I think we are behaving that way now."
Those are heavy words for TV viewers, but an interesting motivation for a remake. Halmi, ever thinking down the road, has something percolating in pre-pre-production, too. "Watch out for the millennium because something bigger might be coming."
"Noah's Ark" will shoot at the Point Cook RAAF Base. A horizon tank was built there on the edge of Port Phillip Bay (off Melbourne) for the 4-hour Hallmark miniseries "Moby Dick," shot late last year. These same facilities will be used for "Noah's Ark".
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On May 19, 1998 Variety columnist Rich Katz reported:
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117471006
"NBC's biggest miniseries of the [1998-99] season will be May's "Noah's Ark," produced by Robert Halmi and starring Jon Voight."
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Note from David:
One chap who lives at the RAAF Base told me the film crew goes through the base's security gate each day to get to the tank. He says several sets are being constructed where the old "Moby Dick" sets had been, and it appears the construction crew is setting up an ancient village. He also says one hanger contains costumes, etc., and that many extras have been arriving each day wearing them. (May 29, 1998)
The Xeno Archives Noah's Ark Sub-Site
http://www.sub.net.au/~xeno/noahs_ark/noahs_ark.html
"Yep. I was an extra in the upcoming Noah's Ark movie being filmed in Australia. It stars John Voight and quite a few other people. Unfortunately I couldn't get pictures of any of the stars, but I got plenty of me in various stages of costuming and makeup, as well as some of the other extras. I played a Sodom Soldier as part of the battle between Sodom and Gomorrah."
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Director John Irvin's films include: "The Dogs of War," "Ghost Story," "Turtle Diary," "Raw Deal," and "Robin Hood". According to a reporter with a prominent entertainment magazine, Irvin will be directing from a script by Peter Barnes (http://www.peterbarnes.com) and the entire Ark will be realized with computer generated effects.
http://www.cinescape.com/links/tvarkr.html
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[Chris Horn informs me that Peter Barnes' new play "Dreaming" was performed at the Manchester Royal Exchange until April 10, 1999. The play will probably be transferred to London in the next few months. According to Chris, "Dreaming" is "a philosophical-historical tragi-comedy drama with tons of spectacle - about what makes a hero...Richard the Third is one of the main characters. It is great fun but also high drama."]
http://www.peterbarnes.com/guinea.htm
Hallmark Behind the Scenes
NOAH'S ARK-the debate is on as to how much of a framing device for the story there needs to be. There weren't quite this many special FX in the BIBLE, nor quite this much wit and additional wisdom. So a framing device was thought in order, so as to not offend the deeply religious. The NOAH story is one page in the BIBLE, but a two-night mini-series. The creators did not want to imply this was word-for-word Biblically accurate (they needed to add things-though legitimate things.)
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Which was larger, Noah's Ark or
the Titanic?
Executive producer Robert Halmi Sr. has said that the Ark in the miniseries will be "bigger than the Titanic".
Henry Morris writes in The Genesis Record
http://www.icr.org/cat-bc.htm#gen-rec
that even if the most conservative estimate of the cubit is used (17.5 inches) the Ark would have been 438 feet long, 72.9 feet wide, and 43.8 feet high.
Morris writes:
"With the dimensions as calculated, the total volumetric capacity of the Ark was approximately 1,400,000 cubic feet, which is equal to the volumetric capacity of 522 standard livestock cars such as used on modern American railroads." (p. 181)
According to
http://www.titanicmovie.com/past/history_index.html
the Titanic was 883 feet long, 92 feet wide, and 104 feet tall from keel to bridge, almost 35 feet of which was below the waterline.
Thus it seems the Titanic was about twice as long as Noah's Ark, but both vessels were close to the same width (Titanic = 92 feet; Noah's Ark= approx 72.9 feet). However, the Titanic was about 2.5 times as tall as Noah's Ark (Titanic = 104 feet tall; Noah's Ark = approx 43.8 feet tall)
Still, an amazing accomplishment for the Noah & Sons Construction Company, don't you think?
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On May 29, 1998 Archerd reported:
http://www.variety.com/search/article.asp?articleID=1117471339
"Jon Voight, en route from the Belgium location of "Dog of Flanders" to the Texas sites for "Varsity Blues," stopped in L.A. long enough to dine at Drai's with daughter Angelina Jolie and son Jamie."
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From Production Weekly
http://www.productionweekly.com
"Noah" Miniseries / NBC
"The story of how Noah saves his family and all the animals of the world from the Great Flood is one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring of all Bible stories, with its cataclysmic imagery and powerful moral message. But as told here, it's also a saga filled with warmth and humor. The story begins with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as Noah, his wife and his sons are among the few to escape. An outcast in his new village, Noah meets ridicule when he builds a great ark at the height of a long drought. But when animals begin to arrive "two by two" and the drought turns to a great flood, the villagers are laughing no more."
Note from David:
I think Peter Barnes' script is in serious need of a rewrite. The story of the Flood appears in Genesis, chapters 6-9; the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah appears in Genesis, chapter 19, occuring hundreds of years later. What are the chances Barnes could sell a script which describes the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occuring BEFORE Christopher Columbus first set sail?
How many years after the Flood were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed?
Here's one estimate:
According to Genesis 9:28, after the Flood, Noah continued to live for 350 years. James B. Jordan says Abram was born 2 years after Noah died. Genesis 17:1 mentions Abram was 99 years old when God said: "No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham..."; it was shortly after that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed (Genesis 19). Therefore, it seems reasonable that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah occured about 451 years after the Flood (350 + 2 + 99 = 451 years).
Is there any evidence for the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction by fire and brimstone (sulfur)?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a007.html
Is it likely some cities could have been founded in as little as 450 years, originating with only three couples? (Noah's sons and their wives). [See Genesis 10: The Table of Nations.] A simple calculation starting with one pair, allowing for only four children from each couple, with 20 years between generations, would result in over one million people within 200 years-that's equivalent to a population the size of Vancouver, B.C. originating from each of Noah's sons. One should also keep in mind that, following colonial settlements in the 1600's, the United States has reached a population of over 250 million in less than 400 years. Therefore, when one estimates the world population after a 450 year period, it seems very likely several cities would be flourishing throughout the Middle East by this time.
World Population Since Creation by Lambert Dolphin
http://www.best.com/~dolphin/popul.html
Noah's Three Sons by Arthur Custance
http://www.custance.org/noah/index.html
Note that the synopsis from Production Weekly includes the statement: "An outcast in his new village, Noah meets ridicule when he builds a great ark at the height of a long drought." A drought implies a long period of time without rain.
In answer to the question, "Did it rain before the Flood?" creationist Walter Brown has commented:
"Probably not. Genesis 2:5-6 has led many to believe that it did not rain anytime before the flood. Genesis 2:5-6 says:
"Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth; and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground."
Please note that these verses state only that shortly after the earth was created, it had not rained. The question we must address is, how long did this condition last?
The mist that rose from the earth may shed some light on this question. Some have interpreted this mist as the beginning of the rain-evaporation cycle. If so, the period of no rain was brief, and we must conclude that it rained before the flood. A second possibility is that the earth acted as a humid terrarium, in which water vapor (which some might consider a mist) evaporated and condensed without rainfall. If so, the preflood rivers would have been mere trickles. However, tiny streams seem inconsistent with the four rivers described in Genesis 2:10-14-two of which (the Tigris and Euphrates) were evidently the basis for naming the mighty postflood rivers that today bear the same names. A third possibility is that the mist, lakes, and rivers were supplied by water forced up through porous regions of the earth's crust from the high-pressure subterranean water described on page 93. A humid atmosphere would supply heavy dew each day during the cool morning hours. Vegetation would thus receive a steady supply of water, especially vegetation with large surface areas."
For the complete article by Brown, go to:
Did it rain before the Flood?
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/faq/prefloodrain.shtml
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From Yahoo.com (June 15, 1998)
"Mary Steenburgen has inked to play the Biblical Sarah opposite Jon Voight's Noah in the four-hour NBC miniseries "Noah," which begins principal photography next month in Australia. Steenburgen, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1981 for "Melvin & Howard," just finished starring in "About Sarah," a CBS miniseries to air in September."
[later reports say Noah's wife is called Naamah]
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On June 16, 1998 an Australian source informed me that one of his colleagues had spoken to a person involved with the miniseries, who said that in the current script, Noah's three sons enter the Ark with their girlfriends.
What does Genesis say?
Genesis 7:7 "And Noah and his sons and his wife and his son's wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood."
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Actors appearing in "Noah's Ark"
I. Jon Voight (Noah)
Filmography for Jon Voight
http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Voight,+Jon
According to Cinescape Insider (http://www.cinescape.com/core2.html) "Voight is certainly a fine actor, and will surely bring the appropriate demeanor to the biblical ship builder."
A Dedication to Jon Voight
http://members.tripod.com/~Monkees23/jvoight/
After making himself scarce, Jon Voight is everywhere
http://search.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/enter/122497/enter1_22270_noframes.html
Jon Voight
http://shell3.ba.best.com/~bigerbtr/beards/celebrity/movies/voight_j/voight_j.ht ml
Jon Voight Interview [May 1,1998]
http://members.tripod.com/~Monkees23/jvoight/jvinterview.html
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/people.asp?p_id=P115561
"Voight's back ... and he's bad" by Bob Thompson (Toronto Sun, November 24, 1998)
http://cgi.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsV/voight.html
And for a change, Voight just finished playing anything but a bad guy.
"I was Noah," he says of his title role in the Biblical tale, Noah's Ark, the NBC mini-series expected to air next spring.
So did Voight talk to the animals? "No, but I gave them lots of room," he says of the many animals on the Australian set.
"I didn't worry about the tigers so much. But I did learn to respect the angry little parrots."
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Jon Voight was among the celebrity narrators for The World Premiere Benefit Concert for the musical, Masada
http://www.ent-today.com/1-15/hollywood-beat.htm
II. Mary Steenburgen (Naamah)
The Mary Steenburgen Encyclopedia
http://www.bttf.com/steenbur.htm
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/people.asp?p_id=P|67856
III. F. Murray Abraham (Lot)
http://shell3.ba.best.com/~bigerbtr/beards/celebrity/movies/abraham_fm/abraham_f m.html
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/people.asp?p_id=P|||138
IV. Carol Kane (Lot's wife)
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/people.asp?p_id=P|36788
V. James Coburn (The Peddler)
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/people.asp?p_id=P195536
Note: On March 21, 1999 James Coburn won the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor" for his role in "Affliction".
VI. Sydney Poitier [aka Sydney
Tamia] (Ruth)
[Sydney is the daughter of actor Sidney Poitier.]
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Media
Melbourne newspapers
http://campaspe.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/vnews.html#melnews
Urban Cinefile - The World of Film in Australia
http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/scripts/cinefile/cinefile_home.asp
Yahoo! Australia & NZ [Entertainment]
http://www.yahoo.com.au/entertainment/
Mr. Showbiz
http://www.mrshowbiz.com/search.html
Studio Briefing
http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/
UltimateTV
Hollywood Online
Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/search.asp
E!Online
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Hallmark Entertainment would have done well to hire John Woodmorappe as a technical advisor for the miniseries. Information regarding Woodmorappe's book, "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study"
http://www.icr.org/cat-ye.htm#naafs
and other publications can be found at:
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-273.htm
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-238.htm
http://www.users.bigpond.com/webfx/cyber/johnw.htm
http://www.users.bigpond.com/webfx/cyber/faqark.htm
http://www.users.bigpond.com/webfx/cyber/refute.htm
http://www.users.bigpond.com/webfx/cyber/faqsifg.htm
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/ark/index.htm
http://www.rae.org/jwindex.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4881/anomalies.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/webman/article.asp?ID=3970&Area=&SubArea=&SubAre
aFlag=
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"More miniseries on the way" by Joanne Ostrow (Denver Post, March 4, 1998)
http://www.denverpost.com/movie/ost163.htm
"Hallmark set to shoot Bible" by Jenny Hontz (Variety, May 11, 1998)
http://www.variety.com/search/article.asp?articleID=1117470671
"Cosby's riff on Noah to be MGM toon pic" by Paul Karon (Variety, May 18, 1998)
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117470936
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Noah's Ark
http://206.230.220.7/news/bn/98/0518nbcprgrmcontd.html
Oscar winner Jon Voight (":Coming Home") stars as Noah, the biblical hero who built the ark, in a lavish four-hour miniseries from the producer of such recent NBC megahits as "Merlin" and "Gulliver's Travels." Executive producer Robert Halmi Sr. has once again assembled a top creative team, so expect "Noah's Ark" to feature dazzling special effects, computerized creatures and a cast of thousands (of animals) in an epic tale of (literally) biblical proportions! The story of how Noah saves his family and all the animals of the world from the Great Flood is one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring of all Bible stories, with its cataclysmic imagery and powerful moral message. But as told here, it's also a saga filled with warmth and adventure. The story begins with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as Noah, his wife and sons are among the few to escape.
An outcast in his new village, Noah meets ridicule when he builds a great ark at the height of a long drought. But when animals begin to arrive "two by two" and the drought turns into a great flood, the villagers are laughing no more. Still, it's hardly smooth sailing. The animals themselves take on part of the job of protecting Noah and the ark, which is attacked by villagers on the ground, and pirates and monsters at sea. An even bigger challenge for Noah (and the animals) is keeping everyone on the straight-and-narrow path, even as the ship veers uncontrollably to its final destination, the top of Mt. Ararat, where the animals are set free and human history begins anew.
"Noah's Ark" is produced by Hallmark Entertainment. Executive producer is Robert Halmi Sr.(":Gulliver's Travels," "The Odyssey," "Merlin"). Writer is Peter Barnes (":The Ruling Class"). Director is John Irvin (":The Dogs of War," "City of Industry").
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http://www.nbc.com/tvcentral/mms/frpv_upcoming.html
Sunday and Monday, May 2 and 3, [1999] 9-11 p.m. ET
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An excerpt from The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (CBS Television, January 13, 1999)
Interview with Jon Voight
Tom: Now I saw you with my friend, Mr. Letterman, here about 2-3 weeks ago and you had something- you had a headpiece on - a hat. What was going on there?
Jon: Oh, that was just a ...I had done "Noah's Ark" and I had, ah, in Melbourne, and I had shaved this little part of my head, and also I had hair glued to me, so I, ah, at the end of the day I used to throw that thing on, and I came back and I was still, you know, a little shy about...
Tom: Yeah.
Jon: ...gettin' my hair back, and so I wore it and then, ah, I went to this restaurant and ah, one day I showed up with the bandana, and the next day I said, "Well, that's silly." and I combed my hair out, showed up, and the woman behind the counter - this lovely gal, really - looked at me, said, ah, "I liked you better yesterday with the bandana."
(laughter)
...so I, oh my God, put back the bandana. It's always a woman!
Tom: Now let me tell ya, there's a buzz about this "Noah's Ark". I've received today 5 or 6 emails from viewers who said, "Please ask Jon about the miniseries" which I guess will appear on NBC, in which you play Noah.
Jon: Yeah, in May, I think May 6th. Yeah, so it's..ah..it's I guess the biggest miniseries in terms of just the budget of it ever made, and ah...
Tom: Like how long will it continue - seven nights?
Jon: It's just gonna be...no, it's just gonna be two nights.
Tom: Oh, just two.
Jon: It's just a huge undertaking, with all the computer graphics and the stuff that went into it, so I hope it's gonna be good.
Tom: And do we see you building the ark?
Jon: You do.
Tom: Wow.
Jon: Yes, I'm...
Tom: Do we see you leading the animals?
Jon: I'm the leading...I'm a leading man. I'm playing a positive role, you know. I'm a little old. I'm 506 years old, but...
(laughter)
Yeah, you see the whole thing. It has a great strain of humor throughout, sometimes very broad, but it also has some, ah, some strong stuff in it, and it's moving too, I think.
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Note from David:
Genesis 5:32 reads: "After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth." Genesis 7:6 reads: "Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came on the earth."
Charts:
Early Human Lifespans
http://www.ldolphin.org/longev.html
Longevity
of the patriarchs
http://www.best.com/~dolphin//longevity.html
Longevity
in antiquity
http://custance.org/seed/ch4s.html
Longevity
in Genesis
http://custance.org/seed/ch5s.html
***
Bible gets
high ratings by Peter T. Chattaway (BC Christian News, June 1998)
http://www.bcchristiannews.org/june/bible.html
Noah's Ark:
The Movie by Ronald L. Ecker
http://www.mindspring.com/~hobrad/acrenoah.htm
"Steenburgen
Considers Bringing Masterpieces to TV" (January 14, 1999)
http://www.ultimatetv.com/news/h/thursday.html
Mary Steenburgen knows of what she speaks. The actress, who co-starred with husband Ted Danson in the phenomenally successful miniseries "Gulliver's Travels" talked to TCA members about her latest role in the upcoming NBC project, "Noah's Ark," starring Jon Voight and Carol Kane.
Steenburgen made it clear that one of the most powerful aspects of bringing a literary work (such as the bible) to the small screen is the interest in which it generates in the original printed word. "I had so many young people come to me and say that because of that miniseries [Gulliver's], they fell in love with the story and got turned onto the book. It's an amazing time to tell this story again, this message about our earth, about how we can take initiative in the millennium."
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Note from David: In the miniseries, Mary Steenburgen's character (Noah's wife) is Naamah. While the Bible does not specifically identify Naamah as the wife of Noah, Genesis 4:22 refers to Naamah as the sister of Tubal-Cain, the son of Zillah and Lamech. According to Jewish tradition, Naamah is mentioned in Genesis because she was Noah's wife. However, this is hotly disputed by some scholars, as Naamah was of the line of Cain.
"Animals steal Ark scenes" by Greg Baerg (January 15, 1999)
http://www.ultimatetv.com/news/f/a/99/01/14voight.html
NBC miniseries 'Noah's Ark' takes liberties with the Bible story" by Hal Boedeker (originally appeared in the January 19, 1999 edition of The Orlando Sentinel, under the headline, "Noah's Ark - revised")
http://206.251.18.60/entertainment/tv/stories/1999/01/noahsark.html
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On March 12, 1999 I learned from Fiona Walkinshaw of FrameStore http://www.framestore.co.uk/ that although the company was involved in post-production for "Gulliver's Travels", "The Odyssey", "Merlin", and "Alice in Wonderland" (all Hallmark Entertainment projects), it was not involved in "Noah's Ark".
However, HFWD Visual Efx reported that Ziad Seirafi was a visual effects producer/consultant for the miniseries:
http://www.hfwd-vfx.com/Ziad_S.htm
On April 12, 1999 one source informed me that most of the special effects shots for "Noah's Ark" were completed by Creative Visual Effects, but a company named CIS did a lot of shots as well. He also thinks some additional shots were completed by the production company in Australia.
AI Effects, Inc. completed a few pickup shots (eg. lioness) to help Creative Visual Effects make their deadline. Two of the shots will appear on its web site http://www.aifx.com/ sometime after "Noah's Ark" is broadcast.
Sound firm Melbourne completed the sound mix for "Noah's Ark".
http://www.soundfirm.com.au/html/body_news.html
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"Noah's Ark" Movie
Trivia
John Wayne was an extra in "Noah's Ark" (1929)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?Noah%27s+Ark+(1929)
Noah was the subject of two Disney shorts-"Father Noah's Ark" (1933) and "Noah's Ark" (1959)
In "The Bible" (1966) director John Huston portrayed Noah, and was the voice of God
http://www.foxhome.com/search/catalog/movie.1020.html
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Additional Noah links
The Search for Noah's Ark
http://users.aol.com/mkneisler/noah/nahome.htm
The Ark Research Project team is planning an expedition to the Mount Ararat region in north-eastern Turkey this summer (1999)
http://users.aol.com/mkneisler/arm/armnews.htm
The Noah's Ark Project
http://user.mc.net/dougp/noahs_ark/
NoahsArkSearch.Com
http://www.noahsarksearch.com/
The Flood of Noah & the Flood of Gilgamesh by Frank Lorey
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-285.htm
The Search for Noah's Ark: Status 1992 by John Morris
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-231.htm
Noah and Human Etymology by Bengt Sage
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-083.htm
The Flood: Local or Global? by Arthur Custance
http://www.custance.org/flood/index.html
The Genesis Flood by John Fok
http://home.hkstar.com/~johnfok1/Apologetics/11.htm
The Ark of Noah by Michael Stevenson
http://www.erols.com/mstevens/live/noah_ark.htm
The Genesis of Geology by Bernard E. Northrup
http://northrup.awwwsome.com/Genesis%20of%20Geology.html
The Ice Age and the Genesis Flood by Michael J. Oard
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-168.htm
The Pitch for Noah's Ark by Tas Walker
http://www.answersingenesis.org/WebMan/Article.asp?ID=1115&Count=true
Ark in football stadium [illustration]
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/figures/29.html
Parrots and Noah's Flood by Darryl Jones and John Mackay
Date of Noah's Flood by J. Osgood
'A Nobody' called Mrs Noah by Gill Middleton
Diseases on the Ark (Answering the Critics) by Carl Wieland
On the Great Flood of Noah by Lambert Dolphin
http://www.best.com/~dolphin/flood.shtml
The Gospel in Genesis
http://www.khouse.org/gen5.html
Mischievous Angels or Sethites?
http://www.khouse.org/articles/update/angelseth.html
As The Days of Noah Were
http://www.khouse.org/noah.html
The Chinese Language and the Creative Hands of God by Ethel Nelson
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-169.htm
James Cameron to direct Noah
http://www.visualfx.com/noah.htm
The Geophysics of God: A Scientist Embraces Plate Tectonics and Noah's Flood, U.S. News & World Report (June 16, 1997)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970616/16terr.htm
The Rebuilding of Noah's Ark [Frostburg, Maryland]
http://members.aol.com/godsark/index.html
Modelling The Size Of The Ark by Don Batten
http://www.spiderweb.com.au/~goeldner/cs15-modeling_the_ark.html
The Return of Noah's Ark by John Morris
http://www.icr.org/pubs/president/prz-9903.htm
The Global Flood of Noah's Day by John Morris
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-311.htm
Noah: The
Man Who Trusted God by Renton Maclachlan
[to be webbed in the near future]
The Genesis Flood Homepage
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FAQs
Did it rain before the Flood?
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/faq/prefloodrain.shtml
Does the Bible claim that the Flood of Noah covered the entire Earth?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c005.html
Problems with a Global Flood? (a rebuttal of Mark Isaak's "Problems with a Global Flood" FAQ in the Talk.Origins Archive) by Jonathan Sarfati
http://www.trueorigin.org/arkdefen.htm
Could Noah's Ark have really held all the animals preserved in the flood?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html
How did all the animals fit on Noah's Ark?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/WebMan/Article.asp?ID=1122&Count=true
Did Noah take dinosaurs on the ark?
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-ark1.html
Did Noah need oxygen above the mountains?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/WebMan/Article.asp?ID=1271&Count=true
Noah's Flood-where did the water go?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c010.html
How did various animals get from the Ark to isolated places, such as Australia?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c006.html
How could all human races come from Noah, his three sons and their wives?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c002.html
Where are all the human fossils?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c014.html
Has anyone really seen Noah's Ark?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a001.html
Could this be Noah's Ark? by Andrew A. Snelling
Is it Noah's Ark? Spy photos focus on Mount Ararat mystery
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/971119/1376926.html
"Noah's Ark - Truth or Myth?" by Michael S. Cole
http://www.westarkchurchofchrist.org/library/noahsark.htm
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Books
A. "The Genesis Flood" by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb (1961)
http://www.icr.org/cat-ye.htm#tgf-bk
B. "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" by John Woodmorappe (1996)
http://www.icr.org/cat-ye.htm#naafs
C. "After The Flood" by Bill Cooper (1995)
http://www.icr.org/cat-bc.htm#atf
http://www.ldolphin.org/cooper/contents.html
D. "Buried Alive: The Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man" by Jack Cuozzo (1998) in which the author theorizes that the Neanderthals were the great, great, grandsons of Noah - and lived to be about 300 years:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0890512388/qid=924763411/sr=1-1/002-78893 31-5676619
E. "Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils" by Marvin L. Lubenow (1992)
" ...we believe that Neandertal was a card-carrying member of the human family, a descendant of Adam, and probably a part of the post-Flood population." (p.65)
http://www.icr.org/cat-sc.htm#boc-bk
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801056772/o/qid%3D924768829/sr%3D2-2/002-1732617-7817611
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c029.html
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-286.htm
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Videos
http://www.icr.org/cat-avm.htm#tfs
1. A Geologist Looks at Noah's Flood
2. The Deluge
3. The Search for Noah's Ark
4. A Geological Perspective on the Age of the Earth
5. The World That Perished
http://www.christiananswers.net/cgi-bin/html_web_store.cgi?page=wpv.html&cart_id =2642632.30721
6. Raging Waters (1998, 28 minutes) Available from the Institute for Creation Research. Telephone 1-800-628-7640. The presenter is David Aikman, a foreign and domestic correspondent with Time Magazine for 23 years.
"Evolutionary science claims that no major catastrophes have struck the earth in recent times, yet legends of Australian Aborigines speak of catastrophic events in recent history. The Genesis account tells how almost all land life was destroyed in a devastating global Flood. Travel with Atlas Adventures as geologists Dr. Andrew Snelling, Dr. Graeme Watmuff, and Philip Hohnen present evidence that Uluru, in the heart of the red desert, was formed rapidly and recently in torrential flooding. Folded strata, ripple marks, marine fossils in high mountain ranges, and the rapid formation of coal, mineral ores, and opals all point to a recent cataclysm, when the vast land of Australia was swept by raging waters."
7. John Woodmorappe lectures (1998) a) Hypercanes: A Cause of the 40 Day Global Flood Rainfall b) Noah's Ark: How Did God Do It?
http://trfn.clpgh.org/csf/icc98ta.html
8. "Noah's Ark" (NBC)
http://www.nbc.com/homevideo/movies_minis/noahs_ark/index.html
2 Videos & soundtrack CD for $29.95 plus shipping.
To order call (800) NBC-1500
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CDs
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/aug98/21_Aug---Film_Score_Friday.html
Film Score Monthly
Friday 8/21/98
by Lukas Kendall
Last week there was a question who was going to score the upcoming TV miniseries Noah's Ark; I'm told it will be Australian composer, Paul Grabowsky, who previously scored Gillian Armstrong's Last Days at Chez Nous.
http://www.varesesarabande.com/1-soundtrack-coming-releases.htm
Upcoming Varese Sarabande Releases
May 4, 1999
Call 1-800-VARESE-4 to order by phone.
Paul Grabowsky: NOAH'S ARK
Original Television Soundtrack
VSD-6027
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Grabowsky,+Paul
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Publicity
The background music for a "Noah's Ark" television commercial (April 21) consisted of the first verse and chorus of "Flood" by rock group, Jars of Clay:
http://www.jarsofclay.com/rhymes/
Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become one with the mud
Chorus:
But if I can't swim after forty
days
and my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves
Lift me up so high that I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up - when I'm falling
Lift me up - I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up - I need you to hold me
Lift me up - Keep me from drowning again
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On Wednesday, April 28 actress Mary Steenburgen was a guest on "Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS).
***
The Ark Research Project
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On the April 23 edition of "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" (CBS) Kilborn mentioned in his intro that James Coburn was in the miniseries, but didn't ask him any questions about it during their conversation.
A Flood
of News & Reviews
John Lithgow ("Third Rock from the Sun") and Jon Voight both recorded tracks for the "Voice of God", but it is Voight's voice one hears in the completed film.
"Noah's Ark latest subject in disaster genre; Television mini-series just may be the first post-modern biblical epic" by Peter T. Chattaway (ChristianWeek, April 13, 1999)
http://www.christianweek.org/stories/vol13/no02/culture.htm
"Mother of 4: NBC's 'Noah's Ark' is inaccurate & excessive in violence, sex" by Ken Walker (Baptist Press, April 23, 1999)
http://www.baptistpress.org/Archive/BaptistPress/view.cgi?file=19990423.html#STORY3
"CopRocker reviews NBC's 'Noah's Ark'" (Ain't It Cool News, April 25, 1999)
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=3490
Jay Leno remarked on "The Tonight Show" (April 26/1999): "Ya know, I think NBC's goin' a little too far tryin' to promote this thing as the 'BIG' movie. They're tryin' to make it feel like an 'EVENT'. Like I don't remember in the Bible, Noah standing on the front of the Ark going: "I'm King of the World!" Do you remember that happening? No!"
"Mary Steenburgen jumps on board for NBC's epic 'Noah'" by Bonnie Churchill (April 26, 1999)
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9904/26/noah.lat/index.html
"Top Ten Ways To Make Religious History More Entertaining" [From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, April 26, 1999]
http://marketing.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/topten/lists/19990426.shtml
On April 28, 1999 Jon Voight was a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (NBC), and Mary Steenburgen was a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" (CBS). More details to follow.
"Noah's Ark": A review by Ray Richmond (Variety, April 28, 1999)
http://www.variety.com/search/review.asp?recordID=1117499697&category=11
"NBC's 'Noah's Ark' distorts God & Noah, 'driven by violence,' Southern prof says" by Macon Fritsch (Baptist Press, April 29, 1999)
http://www.baptistpress.org/Archive/BaptistPress/view.cgi?file=19990429.html#STORY1
"Review of 'Noah's Ark'; A Film by Hallmark Entertainment for NBC" by Daniel I. Block, John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (April 28, 1999)
http://www.sbts.edu/news/noahsark.html
"Jon Voight now a Bible guy" by Bob Thomas (Associated Press, April 29, 1999)
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMovies/apr28_voight_ap.html
"Sweeps flood the TV lineup" by Jim Abbott (Orlando Sentinel, April 29, 1999)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/0429swee_10.htm
Carol Kane video interview (April 29, 1999)
http://dynamic.asylum.com/odv/indexes/1271.html
On April 30, 1999 Mary Steenburgen was a guest on "The Today Show" (NBC).
More details to follow.
"Just Say 'Noah': Even Oscar winners Jon Voight and James Coburn can't
redeem NBC's Old Testament washout" Review by Ken Tucker (Entertainment
Weekly, April 30, 1999)
http://x5.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=472916650&CONTEXT=925573026.198639623&hitnum=2
"Jon Voight: from good guy to bad guy to Bible guy" by Bob Thomas (April
30, 1999)
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9904/30/jon.voight.ap/index.html
"'Noah's Ark' drifts from its biblical source" by Robert Bianco (USA Today, April 30, 1999)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/let010.htm
"A man, an ark, and a whole lot of critters" by M.S. Mason (Christian Science Monitor, April 30, 1999)
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/04/30/p17s1.htm
"Just say 'Noah' to this titanic misfired miniseries" by Scott Pierce (Deseret News, April 30, 1999)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,80001603,00.html?
"In 'Ark,' Noah Plays Friars Club" by Howard Rosenberg (Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1999)
http://www.latimes.com/excite/990430/t000038674.html
"'Noah's Ark' takes the wrong course" by Matthew Gilbert (Boston Globe, April 30, 1999)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/120/living/_Noah_s_Ark_takes_the_wrong_courseP.shtml
"'Noah' a ship of fools" by Michele Greppi (New York Post, April 30, 1999)
http://www.nypostonline.com/043099/tv/7031.htm
"Noah's Ark": Review by David Weiner
http://asylum.netscape.com/tv/noahs_ark/
"`Noah's Ark' Sinks in Sweeps Week" by John Carman (San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 1999)
http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/30/DD38261.DTL
"'Noah's Ark' mangles Good Book into bad movie" by Ellen Gray (Philadelphia Daily News, April 30, 1999)
http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Apr/30/features/FDIS30.htm
"'Noah's Ark' An Unholy Mess" by Eric Mink (New York Daily News, April 30, 1999)
http://www.mostnewyork.com/1999-04-30/New_York_Now/Television/a-27313.asp?last6days=1
"Boat don't float" by Phil Rosenthal (Chicago Sun Times, April 30, 1999)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/television/phil302.html
"'Noah's Ark' is irreverent, but not sacrilegious" by Tom Shales (Washington Post, May 1, 1999)
http://detnews.com/1999/entertainment/9905/01/05010037.htm
"Biblical scholar says, take 'Noah' with a grain of salt" by Rob Owen (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 1, 1999)
http://detnews.com/1999/entertainment/9905/01/05010038.htm
"Noah's Ark a barrel of laughs" by Jeanne Jakle (Express-News, May 1, 1999)
http://www.expressnews.com:80/pantheon/salife-ent/jakle/02jj.shtml
"A mistake of biblical proportions" by Hal Boedeker (Orlando Sentinel, May 2, 1999)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/0502hal_36.htm
"This 'Noah's Ark' sinks before docking" by Rob Owen (Post-Gazette, May 2, 1999)
http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990502owen.asp
"'Noah':taking the high ground" by Tom Shales (Washington Post, May 2, 1999)
http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/02/224l-050299-idx.html
"`Noah's Ark' sails beyond comprehension" by Steve Rabey (Religion News Service, May 2, 1999)
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=475744402&fmt=text
"The wackiest ship in the Bible" by Ed Bark (Dallas Morning News, May 2, 1999)
http://www.bergen.com:80/yourtime/noah02199905025.htm
"Bon Voyage, Biblical Style" by Richard Huff (New York Daily News, May 2, 1999)
http://www.mostnewyork.com/1999-05-02/New_York_Now/Television/a-27195.asp?last6days=1
"The Real Raiders of the Lost Ark," a two-parter airing Monday (May 3) and Tuesday (May 4) at 11 p.m. on WNBC/Channel 4 (New York) http://www.nbc4ny.com/ discusses whether Noah's Ark existed.
http://www.mostnewyork.com/1999-04-28/New_York_Now/Television/a-27108.asp?last6days=1
"Sweeps swoon; Peacock atop heap" by Tom Bierbaum (Variety, May 3, 1999)
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117499550
"NBC's Noah's Ark: Another Piece of Hollywood Trash" by John Woodmorappe (May 4, 1999)
"'Ark' puts NBC first in sweeps" by Tom Bierbaum (Variety, May 4, 1999)
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117499985
"'Ark' floats NBC's boat" by Tom Bierbaum (Variety, May 5, 1999)
http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117500032
"'Noah's Ark' Floods NBC with Complaints, Ratings" by Daniel Frankel (E!Online, May 5, 1999)
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,4718,00.html
"Noah ratings hit high tide despite storm of complaints" (New York Times News Service, May 5, 1999)
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/30daf5e1.505,.html
NBC's "Noah's Ark" Sets Sail On Sea of Stock Energy Provides Pivotal Elements for "Invisible Effects" Shots (May 5, 1999)
http://www.footage.net/newswire/news853.html
"Viewers flood to `Noah's Ark' ratings win" by Brian Lambert (Pioneer Press, May 6, 1999)
http://www.pioneerpress.com/seven-days/3/justgo/docs/002423.htm
"Slow Boat To Ararat" by Philip Michaels (TeeVee, May 6, 1999)
http://www.teevee.org/archive/990506/index.html
"Noah, walk that plank" (Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1999)
http://www.latimes.com/excite/990507/t000041224.html
"'Noah's Ark' was downright - unbiblical" by Chris Hicks (Deseret News, May 7, 1999)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,80002919,00.html?
"With 'Noah's Ark,' TV sinks to new depths" by Clark Morphew (Sun Herald, May 8, 1999)
http://vh1459.infi.net/living/docs/morph050899.htm
"NBC's Ark tops miniseries ratings for season, generates complaints" (Miami Herald, May 8, 1999)
http://www.herald.com/content/today/entertainment/tv/digdocs/049972.htm
"Ark" Floats NBC to Sweeps Win by Daniel Frankel (E!Online, May 11, 1999)
http://www.eonline.com:80/News/Items/0,1,4746,00.html
"Networks open floodgates to religion" by Josh Chetwynd (USA Today, May 12, 1999)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/let006.htm
"Flood of mail against `Noah' is a real deluge" by Brian Lambert (PioneerPress, May 12, 1999)
http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/2/justgo/docs/033527.htm
"TV networks find ratings and religion do mix" by David Finnigan (Religion News Service, May 14)
http://www.star-telegram.com:80/news/doc/1047/1:FAITH5/1:FAITH5051499.html
"Sinking Feeling in 'Noah's' Titanic Disaster" by Melle Matthews Gibbs (Los Angeles Times, Letters, May 15, 1999)
http://www.latimes.com:80/CNS_DAYS/990515/t000043528.html
"Taking liberties with biblical account" (World Magazine, May 15, 1999)
http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/05-15-99/opening_3.asp
Noah's Ark: A Snoozer By Doug Sharp (05/08/1999)
http://www.rae.org/noahzzz.html
Links2Go: Noah's Ark
http://www.links2go.com/topic/Noah~s_Ark
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If you learn of additional "Noah's Ark" news & reviews, please contact me at <dabuckna@wkpowerlink.com>.
For info about the upcoming CBS miniseries, "Jesus", go to: http://www.rae.org/cbsjesus.html
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