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...Moore' Christ-like face lends an ironic dimension to J.B.'s suffering. Even blind and mutilated, the victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van Taylor shines as this Father O'Malley through Stanley Kubrick's lens. The priest offers a straight-forward answer to J.B.'s questions and MacLeish's Question: "Your sin is simple. You were born...
...innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like in its beneficence. His Aryan forcefulness and unceasing intensity combine with a demonic sensuality that brings to mind images of a tiny Adolph Hitler...
Exiled from Rome in 1935 by Mussolini's Fascists, Carlo Levi, poet, painter, doctor and political dissident, was sent to a mountain village in Lucania in southern Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...
...little-known remnant of Smith's movement is the 221,000-member Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, based in Independence, Mo., which Smith designated his "Zion" in 1831. Fifteen years later, after Smith was murdered, many Mormons followed the dynamic Young on a famous trek to Utah, where they flourished. The Reorganized Church developed from those, including the prophet's widow Emma, who stayed behind, contending that Young was a usurper. The one true spiritual heir to Smith, they believed, was his diffident oldest son, Joseph...
...strict isolation from its larger competitor. Some 18,000 cheerful Reorganized Saints from 34 nations flocked to the domed Auditorium in Independence and sang such special hymns as We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet. On the site, eight blocks from the Harry Truman Library, they expect Christ to return and establish his kingdom...