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...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...
...punishment. Considering that there is no more tendentious topic available to a filmmaker, Robbins' restraint, his determination to explore the moral and psychological nuances of the relationship that develops between Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned to death for his participation in a heinous crime, and Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who becomes his spiritual counselor in his final months, is exemplary...
...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...
Five months into his first term, the city's first black mayor confronts an epidemic of bigotry and violence. -- The toughest choice a Governor can make is whether to execute a prisoner. Louisiana's Buddy Roemer decided last week that Dalton Prejean should...