Word: bishops
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...Skirts" (directed by Jose Zayas, produced by Rivks Levine) opens with Phyllis Hogan (Sarah Burt-Kinderman) and her 11-year-old son Bishop (Ryan McCarthy) marooned on a desert island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Through flashbacks, we learn that Phyllis was on her way to Italy for a last attempt at reconciliation with her philandering husband, Howard Hogan (Jed Willard), when the plane went down...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...
TOMAS DE BERLANGA, BISHOP OF Panama, named them Las Encantadas--the Enchanted Isles--in 1535, and more than 4 1/2 centuries later, it's hard to argue with his view of the Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour...
...director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands for hunting and fishing. "If the state gets the lands,'' predicts Republican state senator Al Bishop, "they will go on the sales block...
Washington's varied roles will keep coming: soon he will co-star with Whitney Houston in a remake of the 1947 Cary Grant comedy The Bishop's Wife. "I bring myself to any part," he says. "And I'll bring my experiences and voice my opinions." Those opinions are often present beneath the surface; in his performances, there is a smoldering Afrocentricity that gives his work depth, connecting it to a cultural reality larger than the movies in which he appears. In one scene in The Pelican Brief, he kicks at a cab that has passed him by. In Devil...