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...actor Edward Norton convinced Stuart Blumberg, an old college friend from Yale, to ditch plans for Harvard Law School and work on a film screenplay. The result of his intervention is _Keeping the Faith_, a new romantic comedy first-time director/producer Norton jokingly refers to as his "$30 million rabbi priest joke." However, while the film certainly pays lip service to its religious subtext, it certainly takes its time in exploring them. The movie's two-hour and ten-minute running time is too long, really, for what is essentially a fluffy date movie with a serious undertone...
...Ruby, a rabbi's wife, solves a murder 2. A Brit traipses across America 3. How entomology can help in the courts 4. A teenager's wacky diary entries 5. Cooking-inspired family memoir 6. America, c. 1998. Quite a place 7. The amazing world of day trading...
...Beatty was when he produced and starred in Bonnie and Clyde--Norton has directed and starred in Keeping the Faith, a genially wistful romantic comedy about two guys and the girl they've always loved. If this old-fangled triangle about a priest (Norton), a rabbi (Ben Stiller) and a dynamic executive (Jenna Elfman) proves as popular as early previews suggest, it will give further credence to the belief that Norton is blessed. After just seven films, this Yale grad has earned two Oscar nominations, some of the most demanding roles in recent movies and--though he will never ever...
...actor likes to walk on that serrated edge. So the shock of Keeping the Faith is that it isn't at all shocking. Its three attractive characters are, basically, celibate. Like the way-better Broadcast News, this is a film about friends obsessed with their work. Father Brian and Rabbi Jake amuse their congregations with hip jokes (it's how Sam Kinison and Jackie Mason got started), while Anna toils as a corporate fixer: "I talked McDonald's out of the McOyster...
When the event, which did not make most American TV news shows, finally took place in the Pontifical Institute of Notre Dame, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau sent a murmur through the crowd by claiming, falsely, that the Pope had recognized Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Tamimi's presentation, delivered in a harsh tone, was so bitterly partisan that the moderator felt the need to "remind everyone of the spirit in which we came here today, as religious people who can put aside our politics." The Pope sat through much of the meeting with his hand to his forehead, although whether...