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NAME: Touched by an Angel OCCUPATION: Sanctimonious TV series BEST PUNCH: Angel network CBS complained the ads suggested a link between the series and the "irreverent movie that apparently belittles every religious tenet embraced by our show...
Sarah makes good on her promise. And Greene makes good on the theme that dominated his best work: "the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God." Maurice, of course, is outraged by Sarah's disappearance--and sets a private detective on her. He's looking for an earthly explanation--a rival lover--not an unearthly one, for Sarah's defection. For her part, Sarah remains unsure what has happened to her. Was her prayer answered? Or was Maurice merely knocked out by the explosion...
...suspects he'll do his best to deny it. What can't be denied is the austerity and reality in which Jordan anchors his mystical topic or the way Moore, as the director says, "enters the being of upper-middle-class British life without a ripple," catching perfectly the "unknowable" nature of her character. "I've never seen anybody approach a part with less baggage," he says...
...coolest new additions to the Marley catalog is the just-released CD Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
...exciting as the news about Visudyne is, there are some important caveats to bear in mind. The drug is not a cure. At best, it preserves the status quo. It will not restore vision that has already been lost. Nor does it work for everyone. Company officials estimate that only one-quarter to one-half of the 200,000 or so Americans who develop the severest form of macular degeneration each year will benefit. But for them, it could be the window on the world that allows them to maintain their independence...