Word: brizzolara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions, he writes in the current issue, the formula is classic: "Take priest, mix in dash of sex with preposterous plot. Hollywood reads. Hollywood buys...
...Catholics who argue that it is good public relations for the church to show that priests and nuns are human, Brizzolara reports that "unfortunately, their humanity is all such movies can depict and thus give us only half a priest or half a nun . . . The best [Hollywood] can hope for is to show Father as a 'real Joe,' and Sister as a 'good egg,' naive, perhaps, but wisecracking, gay, dedicated-always the part, never the whole...