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...comfortable in the huge crowds that come to see and hear him. He wades into the throngs, smiling confidently, patting a shoulder, pausing now and then for a "Hi, how are you?" On the podium, however, the smile is replaced by a seriousness that transforms him into a political preacher of fire and brimstone crusading for a righteous cause. Like an Old Testament prophet, McGovern talks of good and evil, light and darkness; his tough speeches are sprinkled with biblical quotations. He always gets loud applause from the audiences that seem to follow him everywhere...
Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine...
...drugs, crime, broken marriages and delinquent children-all implicitly in the name of the Worldwide Church of God. This is a stern, bizarre sect founded in 1934 as the Radio Church of God by Garner Ted's father Herbert W. Armstrong, a Quaker-born ad salesman turned preacher, and still ruled by the elder Armstrong from headquarters in Pasadena, Calif. Garner Ted, 42, was the heir apparent not only to the W.C.G. but also to a church-run institution called Ambassador College: three campuses (in Pasadena; Big Sandy, Texas; and St. Albans, England) where the buildings are expensive...
SOUL: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte show and discuss scenes from their new film. "Buck and the Preacher." 8. May 15. Chan...
Buck and the Preacher, with Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier. Music Hall. Call 423-3300 for times...