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Against All Enemies will get its juice from the spectacle of stratospheric double-dealing; there's more backstabbing than in Hamlet. World Trade Center promises to be a hymn to the courage and perseverance of Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Pena). Jimeno was trapped in an elevator shaft for 15 hours, McLoughlin interred in rubble a few feet below Jimeno for 23 hours...
...leave me trembling at every bell that tolls me.” The track’s simultaneous allusion to and improvement upon tradition is characteristic of Case’s style. “Fox Confessor” also features Case’s interpretation of the folk-hymn “John Saw That Number”, a rousing tribute to John the Baptist. Her version of the song is commensurate to its subject: her recording has all the fervor of a Pentecostal choir on Sunday morning. Case’s band keeps things safe but melodically interesting...
...meetings as welcoming as possible. “We don’t want to be a clique,” Lee says.The HRCF is totally non-denominational, and meetings play host to a range of speakers, and depending on when you walk in, you might hear a baptist hymn, a Southern spiritual, or a piece of high church music. They even avoid using language specific to any particular denomination to avoid excluding visitors of different faiths. Over at the CSA, the biggest night of the week comes on Sunday, when hundreds of students attend mass in the basement...
Fante's novel was a dirge-hymn to L.A. at the time when the first wave of immigrants, teeming west from the plains and north from Mexico, collided in a movie dream gone sour. Published to little note, it slowly found important devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...continue to serve it, also decided that he’d been battered enough: that is fair. Whitman’s heartbreaking American dirge, from which this jeremiad draws its title, will long remind one of this loss—but I’ve not forgotten the Battle Hymn of the Republic, either...