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...also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with his wife Gracie Allen, who preceded him to heaven way back when and is now a Level Six angel. The only way Burns can make Level Six himself is by returning to Earth, coming to a mortal's aid and thereby earning his wings. Frank Capra is not coming back to direct...
...future of America's antipoverty efforts may look a lot like Allen A.M.E. As the nation wrestles with how to reform a failed welfare system, and as more than 35 million Americans continue to live below the poverty line, government is increasingly asking churches to succeed where social workers and bureaucrats handing out checks have failed. State and local welfare departments are starting up innovative partnerships with religious institutions. And a little-noticed provision in last year's welfare-reform law called "charitable choice" has opened the door for the nation's 260,000 religious congregations to take...
...churches, there are two advantages to the new laws. They no longer have to set up secular arms, like Allen A.M.E.'s 11 nonprofit corporations or the Roman Catholic Church's Catholic Charities, to operate government-funded programs. Nor must they strip these programs of religiosity--cover religious symbols or remove evangelical tracts from waiting rooms--to participate. To its proponents, charitable choice is simply about treating churches equally. "Just because an organization has a cross hanging in its window doesn't mean we should discriminate against it and prevent it from helping people," says Representative J.C. Watts of Oklahoma...
Arrangements like Allen A.M.E.'s, in which government funds flow through nonreligious church-affiliated corporations, are relatively uncontroversial. But critics and civil libertarians say the new programs, in which churches become agents of the welfare system, are different. Welfare recipients may soon be forced to pray in order to receive benefits, they say, or to watch religious videos while they wait to talk to their caseworker. "I'm worried we will see tax dollars being used to evangelize as well as provide social services," says the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State...
...Game he plays the ultimate deadbeat dad. His character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is doing time for killing his wife. Freedom beckons, in the form of a Governor's pardon, if he can persuade his estranged son Jesus, a high school basketball star played by Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen, to sign with an agent. The movie, produced by Swishin' an' Dishin', has not yet been sold for distribution, and Lee expects to wrap up filming on Coney Island early in October. In time for the season's first...