Scorsese and the companies that financed the movie, Universal Pictures and Cineplex Odeon Films. Several prominent movie directors held a news conference in Los Angeles this morning to defend Mr. But the number of pickets remained small in other cities. The largest number of demonstrators turned out in New York, where by early evening more than 500 people, many of them Greek Orthodox, were packed into a cordoned-off area in front of the Ziegfeld theater, with 100 police officers looking on. People eager to buy tickets greatly outnumbered the protesters in all of the nine cities where the movie opened this afternoon. After a month of protests and angry rallies by groups that consider the movie blasphemous, Martin Scorsese's ''Last Temptation of Christ'' opened today to long lines, sold-out theaters and scattered picketing.
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