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...rich baritone and the gaze that saw all and feared nothing--that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity. Born Raiford Chatman Davis (the initials R.C. became Ossie), he wrote two successful Broadway shows--Purlie Victorious, a satire of race relations, and its musical version, Purlie--and, decades later, became the patriarchal conscience of seven Spike Lee films (among them Do the Right Thing, right...
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN Joan Fontaine in a masterpiece of postmortem passion...
Love Deluxe. A perfectly balanced album from Sade that's smooth enough to soothe and soulful enough to conjure romantic passion...
Written by David Seltzer (who also wrote the Ur-Apocalyptic flick The Omen), the show has some of the religious intrigue of The Da Vinci Code and some of the grim phantasmagoria of The Passion of the Christ--two successes NBC would clearly like to have rub off on it. "In the tumultuous times we live in," says NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who green-lighted both Medium and Revelations, "Apocalyptic theory and big existential questions tend to be on the rise...
While NBC may want to reach religious conservatives who bought up Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of Armageddon books and saw The Passion in droves, Revelations could also offend some of them. Its heroes are seeking to forestall the Apocalypse--even though for some believers, the end of days, and the establishment of Christ's kingdom, is to be hoped for. (Revelations could become a regular series, in which case ending the world would hurt its syndication chances...