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...beginnings of determination working in the very way Jolie holds herself. It’s a good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid, because she carries most of the weight of the film. The accompanying cast includes John Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters seem flat. Briegleb, with a single-mindedness that is more annoying...
...idea that a black man would within a few decades be elected president with strong white support would have seemed ludicrous to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. just as much as to Malcolm X or George Wallace...
...current activist students. “This is one of those rare chances when you won’t get stomped on, and you will actually get listened to because all the grown-ups said ‘whoops,’” she said. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes was honored on behalf of the Memorial Church grants committee, which has repeatedly decided to support PBHA financially. Gomes expressed his enthusiasm for what he called “the best course at Harvard” and discussed his role at PBHA since...
...hubbub began when Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a professor of Christian morals, asked if the calendar changes would allow for the best use of Faculty time over the year, and if the changes were set in stone...
...hard to find. Smith opened the performance with a Christian definition of grace delivered by a fiery grandmother who explains that grace is an intervention of God in the hardest times. Continuing with a religious investigation into the meaning of the word, Smith re-enacted interviews she conducted with Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Harvard professor and preacher, and Reverend James Cone. She pulled ties out of her pocket, donned glasses, reclined on a chair, and assumed an affected tone of academic authority before switching to a more spirited, Southern accent. Smith’s ability to vary her voice wavered...