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Your glowing article on William Bennett topped with the halo on his head [NATION, Sept. 16] made me sick. "Life is good" for the millionaire, who is nothing more than a blowhard preacher without the credentials. Who is this rich, anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-corporal- and capital-punishment zealot to tell people who struggle every day to get by about "'moral poverty' born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too easy divorce"? I am sick of the crop of rich Republicans who hypocritically sermonize about the decline in "family values," when their values translated into actions destroy the families...
West, a former Princeton professor whose mega-successful books and Baptist-preacher speaking style make him a popular lecturer across the nation, is arguably the most prominent black intellectual alive...
...which a songwriter very much like Carole King meets a songwriter very much like Brian Wilson; and That Thing You Do! with writer-director Tom Hanks playing a record-label exec who manages a one-hit pop group. Both films boast new songs composed in period style. And The Preacher's Wife will offer Whitney Houston putting over surefire spirituals with a gospel choir. That's the kind of musical both Variety and Billboard can understand...
Having had his fill of being on the news, Christopher Darden is taking his rhetorical skills to series TV. O.J.'s prosecutor will play a preacher in an episode of CBS's inspirational series Touched by an Angel, one of Darden's favorite shows. That should take the sting out of being bumped as a speaker at the G.O.P. convention...
...about Dole, the ones uttered to friends last spring, and denying them will be easy for him. Kemp long ago mastered an essential element of politics, the art of behaving as if no one has any memory. He will enthusiastically and repeatedly praise a man he has loathed, and preacher that he is, he may even come to believe what he says...