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What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
Woodruff may have learned his way with people as the son of a tent-preaching Oklahoma evangelist; his job was to take around the collection plate, and by the age of 10, he was giving his own sermons. After joining the CIA in 1975, he thrived on Third World crises. He loathed neckties and wore cowboy boots and sometimes a ten-gallon hat. But he was no cowboy on the job. Joseph O'Neill, who served with Woodruff in Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what...
CRITICS GROUSE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE OF THE tried and true, but ultimately that's just what the audience wants. Proof: this holiday season's movie- attendance figures. The big disappointments were all thematically adventurous: Leap of Faith (Steve Martin as an evangelist), Hoffa (Jack Nicholson as a labor leader), Malcolm X (Denzel Washington as a civil rights activist) and Toys (Robin Williams as . . . whatever...
...real thing (as performed by the Angels of Mercy, Patti LaBelle, Albertina Walker) with soulful tributes from pop acolytes (John Pagano, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett). But the movie, like The Bodyguard, doesn't live up to the craft or fervor of its music. This tale of a tent-show evangelist (Steve Martin) -- he promises "miracles and wonders" while lining his pockets with the gullible hopes of decent people -- can't even take energy from Martin's holy rants and amazing body...
Martin plays the slick-talking, fast-walking and knee-jerking evangelist who brings some hope into his parish's life--in God we trust, all others pay cash, of course. He performs his "sermons" adjacent his choir, the Angels of Mercy, one of the film's few standouts...