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Recognized for years of distinguished literary scholarship and commitment to the African American community, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. became the first African American recipient of the Sarah Josepha Hale Award...
Because the Board of Judges for the Sarah Josepha Hale Award choose the following recipient at the awards ceremony the year before, little was said in response to the incident, which aroused media attention nationwide...
Revelations, like Medium and The X-Files before it, uses a believer-skeptic pairing. Sister Josepha Montifiore (Natascha McElhone) belongs to an order of nuns, at odds with the Vatican, that believes the Second Coming is imminent; her reluctant partner, Dr. Richard Massey (Bill Pullman), is a secular academic. But the series leaves no room for doubt that otherworldly events are going on. In the pilot, there is a bona fide miracle (the shadow of Christ appears on a mountainside in Mexico), a Satanist cuts off his own finger without bleeding, and a baby--who may be the Antichrist...
...apartment is too small. The dog is too large. Michel has just been caught having an affair with a pressagent. And the best job Josepha can get for the moment is in a soft-core porn movie. Well, that's show business, and it is hard to remember a movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import...
Hard, also, to remember a movie that has more authentically captured the fretfulness of a relationship where nothing is irredeemably wrong but nothing is terribly right. When, on location for her foolish film, Josepha decides to have a vengeful affair, her aim is to shake up, not necessarily break up, her marriage. But it turns out that the drift into separation is neither more nor less uncomfortable to endure than the tuggings and haulings of an old marriage. It does, at least, give everyone a new set of problems to think about, and the novelty is welcome. Josepha lacks...