September 7, 2003 THIS WEEK IN THE NEW YORKER PRESS CONTACTS: Perri Dorset, Director, Public Relations (212) 286-5898 Jodi Bart, Junior Publicist (212) 286-5996 In his forthcoming film, "The Passion," "I didn't want to see Jesus looking really pretty. I wanted to mess up one of his eyes, destroy it," Mel Gibson tells Peter J. Boyer in "The Jesus War," in the September 15, 2003, issue of The New Yorker. "Violence," writes Boyer, who has seen an early, unfinished version of the movie, "is Gibson's natural film language, and his Jesus is unsparingly pummelled, flayed, kicked, and otherwise smitten from...