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4. Ebert on The Departed: "It is intriguing to wonder what Scorsese saw in the Hong Kong movie [2002's Infernal Affairs] that inspired him to make the second remake of his career (after Cape Fear) ... I have often thought that many of Scorsese's critics and admirers do not...
The Lowdown: A work of obvious affection, even adoration, what might surprise readers most is how Scorsese By Ebert emerges as a work of profound identification. In his foreword, Scorsese acknowledges that Ebert closely shares his love of film, his religious roots, and his moralistic worldview. Ebert picks up on...
The Lowdown: There are some who think that memoirs should be exciting, thrilling, full of tragedy or high comedy. John Grogan does not write those kind of memoirs. There are some who think that memoirs should look at the lives of screwed-up folk on their way down (who eventually...
Sister Emmanuelle, born Madeleine Cinquin in Belgium, was a champion for the marginalized. A nun at 23, she taught literature and philosophy in Turkey and became an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church's contraception policies. At 62, she was allowed to begin working with Cairo's poorest people...
To be sure, PostSecret's emulators, religious and secular, do not claim to replace the act of confession to God or sharing secrets with someone you know. In the case of the Catholic Church, which has seen dwindling numbers of members visiting confessionals over the past few decades, leaders have...