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...death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming poetry of medieval English miracle, or mystery, plays, chiefly the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles, but the visual imagery is imaginatively modern: God sits in judgment on a whirling metal cage of a world, and Jesus ascends into heaven on a forklift truck. Director Bill Bryden has preserved the vernacular tone and naive simplicity of the originals and has staged the action so that much of the audience can mingle with the actors. The atmosphere is festive yet never trivial, and whatever a spectator's religious convictions, the cumulative...
...scene a day later at Beijing's officially sanctioned East Church, which is administered by the state-run Catholic Patriotic Association, was no less fervent. The church was hung with banners commemorating the Pope, and a priest in purple vestments led prayers for his "peaceful enjoyment of heaven." This was the first time since Beijing severed relations with the Vatican in 1951 that worshippers in state-approved churches were allowed to commemorate a Pope's death. With China's approximately 10 million Catholics united in mourning the Pontiff, the divide between underground and official congregations was blurred. "Underground churches...
Mitch Albom, who has made grown men cry--and made a bundle of moolah--with such earnest fare as The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is in publishing purgatory. In his column in the Detroit Free Press, he wrote of two ex-Michigan State basketballers cheering at their alma mater's Final Four game. Trouble is, they weren't there. Albom filed his column before the game even started. He apologized, and his paper promised an investigation. Uh-oh. What if he really spent his Wednesdays with Morrie...
...this is a season of mystery and grace, and during the final days, John Paul II gave his people one last gift: the message of his visible pain and transcendent love, like a bell ringing out over St. Peter's Square, clear and resounding as it carried up to heaven. --With reporting by Jeff Israely and Giancarlo Zizola/Rome
...snake and (Damiano's favorite marital aid) a water tube. (He has a similar scene in Deep Throat and later devoted an entire movie, Water Power, to high colonics.) With plenty of boy/girl, girl/girl and orgy "action," Devil still takes itself solemnly enough to risk being laughable. But heaven knows it's intense, and an honorable attempt to blue the line between porn and "real" films. As for Spelvin, she isn't a slut; she is a theater-trained actress giving...