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...Judging Masada...
...Masada vs. Jonestown...
...story "The Networks Get Religion" [April 6], Richard Corliss calls Eleazar Ben Yair of Masada an "honorable" Jim Jones. The bravery of the Jews who chose death over capture at Masada can never be compared with the paranoid fear of the "damned" at Guyana. People look to Masada for inspiration. Can Mr. Corliss say the same about the carnage that took place at Guyana...
...Nielsen." And then the Lord God spoke unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission of my messengers Peter and Paul. And to you, ABC, I say that you shall relate the story of my brave people at the Battle of Masada." And the third elder, the Pharisee of NBC, asked: "What about me, Lord?" And the Lord God said: "Sorry, Man of Silver, this isn 't your year." But for the good elders, God did part the Red Ink, and the words and pictures of the Lord were brought...
...scheming princes of the Roman Empire. Peter and Paul (CBS, April 12 and 14) covers the crucial three decades after the death of Jesus, when a Galilean fisherman solidified his authority over the church, and a Cilician Jew spread Christ's teachings throughout the Mediterranean world. Masada (ABC, April 5-8) begins a few years later and chronicles the last desperate stand, in a Judean fortress, of 960 Jews against the more than 10,000 soldiers and Jewish captives of the Roman Tenth Legion. In achievement, though, the two shows are worlds apart: one is standard solemn biopic...