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...Keeping the Faith is that it isn't at all shocking. Its three attractive characters are, basically, celibate. Like the way-better Broadcast News, this is a film about friends obsessed with their work. Father Brian and Rabbi Jake amuse their congregations with hip jokes (it's how Sam Kinison and Jackie Mason got started), while Anna toils as a corporate fixer: "I talked McDonald's out of the McOyster...
Well, you can't keep a bad mouth down. The satanic prince of heavy-mental satire is back in a "new" album, Live from Hell. The set was recorded in Houston in late 1991, and by the high standards of Kinison's albums Louder Than Hell and Have You Seen Me Lately?, it's a little lazy -- and, of course, morally reprehensible. But Live from Hell is still a blast from below, a blizzard of belligerence against underdogs (gay men, the homeless) and a parade of celebs whose exploits Kinison considers more lurid than his. Rick James? Axl Rose? "These...
...enough to come out of the desert and get a Big Mac. The Iraqis? They're asking for U.S. aid because their cities have been leveled and their people killed. "Yeah, that's basically what we wanted to do to you. That's why they call it a f-----' " Kinison suspects that the Allies finished the war in six days because they wanted to skip town "before Bob Hope comes back with another cavalcade of loser has-been stars...
...Kinison was not Lenny Bruce -- more studied, less sharp and attacking society from the redneck right instead of the hip-humanist left. But he was no lame-brain Andrew Dice Clay either. What's the difference? Well, stand back, because we have to scream this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned...
Entertainment: Comic Sam Kinison howls from the grave...