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Historians' comments: "Victim of events beyond his control"; "Should have been a preacher...
Most of the story is told by a bright, troubled girl named Mercy, daughter of a preacher whose church has been taken over by religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned...
...even as he pleaded not guilty last week, his supporters may be coming to feel they have embraced a Judas. Already the changes are striking. Lyons has long been a popular preacher, so powerfully connected that some associates called him the black Pope. On a recent Sunday, Lyons forbade a TIME photographer to take a wide-angle shot of the congregation at worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic...
...Apostle doesn't have much depth; as a study of spiritual crisis, it falls short. Robert Duvall has long wanted to make (and star in) this intimate epic about a preacher forced to reappraise his life when he commits a crime and is compelled to leave his Texas flock for a mysterious calling in rural Louisiana. Duvall doesn't acquit himself at all, either as an actor or as a filmmaker. But he coaxed true performances from Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, John Beasley and June Carter Cash. But the fine supporting cast does not have much to do. Every...
Here the race is a deadlock between Robert Duvall's preacher from The Apostle and Peter Fonda's beekeeper from Ulee's Gold. Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets) and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog) have already gotten more than their fair share of Oscars in the past; Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) is too new to the game...