New Line's movie The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig opens on December 7, bringing an acclaimed best-selling fantasy trilogy by author Philip Pullman to its widest audience yet. And after years of accolades and unstinting praise, Pullman is finally getting his wish for controversy: the far right is attacking his work as pernicious, evil, anti-God and basically the kiddie version of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
The attack, such as it is, is being led...
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