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Liberace spoke reverently to his fans of motherhood, country and religion -- in earlier days his act featured a woman dressed as a nun outstretched in spiritual ecstasy as he played the Ave Maria -- but he poked constant fun at himself. His little-boy smirkiness brought out maternal feelings in women twice his age and eventually in women half his age. So did his soulful, unmacho sentiment: long before liberation, he offered the female public a man as romantic, as house proud and as appearance conscious as any of them. They envied his tightly curled hair, his industrial-size dimple, above...
...call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next thing Jack knows, he is driving the firm's hearse to a local soup kitchen and picking up a Roman Catholic nun who will oversee the transfer of a body from the Carville hospital back to New Orleans...
...ironic gloss. It communicates a girl's consuming joy in finding, in Jesus, the object of her obsession. It also takes a peasant's pleasure in the texture and even the temperature of every icon, from a bed warmer to a crucifix to the face of an old crippled nun preparing to die. "Give me a kiss," she demands of young Therese. "A real kiss. The kind that warms you up." The movie is a saint's chaste kiss that warms...
...Mouchet) was one of four Martin sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of love and sacrifice. For the older nuns, the convent is not a ^ prison but an enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin as if it were the Eucharist. Later another nun...
...gossipy intimacies that Therese swaps with her young acolytes about their love for Jesus. "Fondle him," she advises a friend. "That's how I snared him." Therese dies as she lived, a coquette for Christ, gaily fanning the crucifix on her sickbed pillow. "Back together again?" a nun asks of Therese and her beloved. The girl nods: "Poor thing. He's so lonely." Her mission was to make everyone feel happier, less lonely. A century later, she does so on film. Therese is enough to restore one's faith, at least, in the power of movies...