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...burlap strips, it looks like Bob Marley has joined a militia. My doe's head may be spinning around like something out of The Exorcist for all I know. I can't see through the dreadlocks. The driver may not know whether to lock and load or call a priest. But he's still watching. Go ahead, tough guy. Show some courage...
...person that saves the king-a man named Willis, former priest and amateur physician-does so by shocking him into sanity, by breaking him up so he can be built up again. Willis character demands a mixture of sternness and doting which unfortunately evades title actor Alexis Burgess. The error is on the side of severity, as Burgess's Willis breaks George through boot camp discipline combined with asylum methods. His role in the production is not that of foil for the king's will, but, at best, of disciplinarian. Burgess's Willis is a tool to hammer reason back...
There's something of the troubled priest about Andre Braugher. Maybe it's because his most familiar character--Homicide's Detective Frank Pembleton, who won him an Emmy in 1998--was a fallen Catholic who interrogated his soul as fiercely as he grilled suspects. Maybe it's because he has also played a priest (in TNT's 1999 Passing Glory), and went to a Jesuit high school in Chicago...
...very capable Lieberman has a lot going for him. But he'd best take heed of an old saying: "Too much 'Praise the Lord' and even the priest gets tired of it." LESTER DOULIS Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
DIED. THE REV. ELLWOOD ("Bud") KIESER, 71, six-time Emmy Award-winning Roman Catholic priest; of colon cancer; in Los Angeles. His morality-based drama series, Insight, which ran for 23 years, from 1960 to 1983, attracted such high-profile actors as Walter Matthau and Martin Sheen...