THE DA VINCI CODE, THE MOVIE, CLINGS TO ALBINO VILLAIN STEREOTYPE

New York -- Opus Dei, the secretive conservative arm of the Catholic Church, isn't the only special-interest group with its robes in a knot over the upcoming feature-film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, which opens May 19. Albinos are none too happy with the thriller, either. As tens of millions of readers around the world already know -- spoiler alert! -- the most unsettling character in the Dan Brown page-turner is Silas, a self-flagellating, devout albino monk who murders and menaces his way around Paris in what he believes is a bid to save the Catholic Church. [More]