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...Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. They meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston)--the source, we soon realize, of some of the boys' bad habits...
Thank you for the insightful article�describing Mother Teresa's crisis of faith [Sept. 3]. I appreciated the evocation of several tenets of Christianity as well as those of agnosticism and atheism. I believe Mother Teresa was as close to God as humanly possible, and I agree that a parallel exists between Christ's final moments on the Cross and Mother Teresa's final 50 years, during which she didn't feel the presence of God. Her life of faith, dedication and commitment despite incredible spiritual trials should inspire us all, regardless of our religious inclinations...
...religious people use their faith to explain away the horrors of human experience. Believing that everything is part of God's master plan affords them the complacency of accepting the most terrible of tragedies. It is with the deepest respect that I read about the struggle of the real Mother Teresa, who, it now appears, had no such crutch. She soldiered on because she was a good and caring human helping her fellow man endure senseless suffering. If there is a God, Teresa is sitting at his side in heaven...
...adaptation ends at a funeral - itself a ritualistic form of theater. But instead of an affirmation ("Let's turn this funeral into a fiesta," Agrado pleads) we get a dirge. Unlike the film, which offers an uplifting coda, the play closes with Rigg's melodramatic reading of a mother's threnody for a dead son from Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding, which features only briefly in the film. It recounts the moment she finds his carcass: "I licked the blood because it was my blood," she says...
...children in the southern Israeli town of Sderot toddled back to class after summer vacation on Monday, a Palestinian rocket exploded near a gaily painted kindergarten. None of the kids were hurt by the blast, but as one mother who rushed to the kindergarten says, "I found all the children terrified and in tears." They were treated for shock...