The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith has been found dead in the Bahamas, where the former reality TV star and Playboy playmate gave birth to a baby girl days earlier.

Even before sunrise, believers and nonbelievers alike poured into cinemas across the US on Ash Wednesday for the opening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

It may be subtitled, and it may be staggeringly gory, yet Christians across the United States also expect that seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ will be a profoundly moving experience.