Word: prejean
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Last Dance (written by Ron Koslow and Steven Haft) is also akin to Dead Man Walking, with Stone as the grizzled con and Rob Morrow in the Sister Helen Prejean role. Cindy Liggett has spent 12 years on death row for a double murder she committed while on drugs; hope, for her, is the one hallucinogen not worth tasting. But Rick Hayes, a lawyer from the state clemency board, becomes convinced that her case has merit--and falls a little in love with her. Why not? This wretched killer is, after all, Sharon Stone...
...roles people can play in the film industry." In other major awards, Nicholas Cage won best actor for his portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas." Susan Sarandon, who had been shut out after four previous nominations, won best actress for the role of Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking." The actual Louisiana nun, who tried to reform a death-row inmate, was in the audience. In terms of genuine emotion, TIME's Attinger says, Sarandon's moment ranked with Mira Sorvino's win for best supporting actress for her portrayal of a prostitute in "Might Aphrodite...
...recently had the pleasure of reading Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean. Based on the title, I initially expected it to be about Bob Dole's presidential aspirations. While that humor may have failed, Sister Helen definitely was successful in claiming that the death penalty should be abolished. Although I was initially skeptical, Sister Helen ultimately persuaded me as she methodically shot down the strongest arguments for capital punishment. Yet, in doing so, she remained sensitive, empathizing with the pain of the victims' families...
After receiving her Pudding Pot, Sarandon said, "I think that this has exorcised every last bit of nun out of me," referring to her role as Sister Prejean in the current film "Dead Man Walking." She then returned to her seat to watch three musical numbers from this year's Hasty Pudding show "Morocco 'Round the Clock...
...surprising, since Robbins and Sarandon, a real-life couple, are not known for their shyness in expressing outraged opinions on controversial subjects. Here, however, working from a free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...