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...cavernous Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis, the air throbs to the beat of drums and tambourines punctuating a Sunday-morning service. Parishioners sing out the Gospel hymn Victory! I've Got It. Victory! I've Got It. As impulse moves them, some of the worshipers dance across the aisles, while white-clad deaconesses stand ready to aid those overcome by emotion. "God is still in the miracle business," intones Bishop James O. Patterson Jr. during an hourlong sermon. The Church of God in Christ, with 3.7 million members, is the fastest growing black denomination -- in fact...
Oliver North? Who cares? The Last Temptation of Christ? Never saw it anyway. If the 'Skins were back on track, I was back on board...
Okay, I'll fess up. Last September, it was me who wrote an article in these pages entitled "Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer." Citing Redskins support for Oliver North and and Gibbs' opposition to the Last Temptation of Christ, I wrote that I was "losing my allegiance to the team of my youth." In my most shameful moment, I even lambasted the team for failing to make the playoffs...
...Atahuallpa and Pizarro strike up a humorous, thought-provoking dialogue in the midst of adversity. While Atahuallpa is held prisoner by the Spaniards in his own palace, he jokes with Pizarro, "Your pope is mad, he gives away countries that are not his." Later, he quips of transubstantiation, "First [Christ] becomes a biscuit and then they eat him and then they drink his blood...
...Even a studio as sympathetic to maverick talent as Universal Pictures will not release an X-rated film. "We want to support Phil's vision," says Universal president Tom Pollack, "as we did with Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ." But if Henry & June loses its Oct. 3 appeal to the rating board, Kaufman has only two options: cut the film to the censors' pattern or take his movie to an independent distributor...