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...rights, Cry Freedom ought to be Bantu Stephen Biko's story. The man was as close to being an authentic martyr as any revolution can claim: charismatic preacher of nonviolent resistance, champion of racial equality, steely victim of state sadism. He died in the arms of his torturers ten years ago. There is surely a film here, but Attenborough and Screenwriter John Briley can't find it. The men who made Gandhi turn their Steve Biko (Denzel Washington, from TV's St. Elsewhere) into a saintly apparition; he is first seen swathed in blinding sunlight and last seen shimmering...
...tramped up a path of Biblical phrases to another fortress of Jerusalem stone-The Upper Room. There I caught a few snatches of a preacher speaking to a dozen people--sinners, I think he said...
...Fundamentalist preacher named Kip McKean became pastor of the Boston Church of Christ, which at that time was based in Lexington and boasted only 30 members. Today the Church holds Sunday services in the Boston Garden for a fanatically loyal flock of well over...
McKean is still the spiritual leader andprimary preacher, but most of the day-to-dayoperations of the worldwide church, drawing onmembers from more than 75 different countries, areentrusted to a group of church Elders led by AlBaird, who holds an M.I.T doctorate. Contributionsfrom members make up the Church's finiancialholdings, which total approximately $3 million.Most of the money goes to support new church"plantings" in climes as exotic as Johannesburgand Bombay...
Hahn, 28, first came to public notice as the former church secretary from Long Island, N.Y., who toppled Televangelist Jim Bakker from the pulpit of his lucrative PTL ministry by admitting an irregular sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic...