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...Richard Gere, successfully raise the issue in any public forum they can. Others go local, offering free labor at the health or public-affairs offices and chanting at temples. A few go way too far: action hero Steven Seagal has claimed to be the incarnation of an important Tibetan monk...
...books?turning the Dalai Lama, at best, into the world's spiritual teddy bear. French writes a hilarious account of the Dalai Lama on the Larry King Live TV show in 2000. After describing him as a leading Muslim in an earlier program, the host Larry King asks the monk for his thoughts on DNA and the human-genome project. Bewildered, the Dalai Lama demurs on those topics?and is cut off by a commercial break as soon as he begins talking about Tibet...
...movie is a course in anger management: in the care and feeding of rage, first suppressed, then geysering into an explosion of smashed crockery and punched-out supporting players. All the ingenuity goes into justifying sociopathic behavior--for example, how can Sandler beat the pacifism out of a Buddhist monk and keep the audience's sympathy? It's classically infantile comedy, ending in a payoff so corny it would have made Frank Capra wince. (This time Sandler has all of Yankee Stadium as his theater of catharsis, with Rudy Giuliani cheering...
...with no doors. And they're talking about three of their greatest treasures. Perhaps the saint is so popular he doesn't even need a name. The Basilica del Santo is the resting place of St. Anthony - known simply as il Santo - a humble 13th century Franciscan monk. The massive church, with its mixture of Christian and Islamic influences, brims with artwork by Donatello and Titian, and annually attracts 4 million visitors and pilgrims. Surprising gothic thrill: one of the relics on display is Anthony's calcified tongue and jaw. Just down the road lies the Prato della Valle...
...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow