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...parts Anglo, one part German, one part Cherokee. He was born in 1925 in one of the most art-free zones of America, Port Arthur, a bayou oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, and as a teenager he thought of becoming a preacher. Luckily for American art, and perhaps for the ministry too, he ditched the notion on realizing that the Church of Christ forbade dancing. He did a stint in the Navy, as a male psychiatric nurse--which confirmed him as a lifelong pacifist. He dabbled in painting, then (after his discharge...
...time for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, he is rubbing a lot of those shoulders. After he settled into a black Chevrolet Suburban last June for a drive with the Rev. Louis Sheldon, the ultraconservative founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, Forbes endured an hour-long grilling. The preacher asked for Forbes' view about abortion (against), school choice (for), and the "homosexual-rights agenda" (against, but no harassment, please). "I was a doubter," says Sheldon. "The stereotype from the 1996 campaign was that Steve Forbes was clearly pro-choice and clearly libertarian." Sheldon emerged a believer. "By the time...
...white films--have often failed to become moneymakers. Spike Lee's 1996 film Get on the Bus, a fictional drama about the Million Man March, drew some favorable reviews but few theatergoers. Says a source close to Lee: "That broke Spike's heart." Even the 1996 comedy-fantasy The Preacher's Wife, starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington and directed by Penny Marshall, was a commercial disappointment...
That personal, emotional investment may be what audiences are responding to when they see it. Says producer Warrington Hudlin: "Look at The Preacher's Wife: two big stars, but the film did not capture the right flavor. They spent a lot of money but did not capture the nuances of the black community...
Sweat / You could make a preacher regret / He ever donned a Catholic vest / And make him run for a ring and a diamond, he croons...