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...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...
...narrowness of tone would be hypocritical if it did not offend. The album cover features an almost sambo-like purple face, and the inside artwork is a melange of Aunt Jemima figures, smiling Aryan face and blonde hour glass cartoons. "Marbles" opens with the dub of a righteous gospel preacher: "A whistling woman...is an abomination to the lord" and leads into the chorus "Why you say yes when you know you mean no?," playing on current sexual protocol. Of course of few in the crowd might even take issue with the band's Reagan-abuse...
West, speaking at the podium like a preacher preparing his flock to meet the revelation, used his sonorous and gravelly voice to dramatic effect speaking of Morrison...
Such flash-point confrontations would be a rarity for Jordan. He was a lawyer, not a preacher or street activist, and after a risky period spent registering black voters across the South, he came to eschew marches and sit-ins in favor of working inside the system and raising money from white-owned corporations. In 1970 he became executive director of the United Negro College Fund; a year later, he was running the moderate, pro-business National Urban League. He got to know everyone who mattered in corporate America--white, black, whatever--and in politics as well. He played tennis...
...ever deepening levels, however, Branch's follow-up to his Pulitzer-prizewinning Parting the Waters (1988) is dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy...