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...Broadway Revivalist Thomas Meehan has a knack for turning films like The Producers into Broadway hits
...writing lyrics for others. Soon, at the mixing desk, he was helping make Studio One the island's hottest hit factory. In 1968, keen to make his own mark, Perry established the Upsetter label, and one evening heard the drum beat he wanted emanating from a Pocomania Church - a Revivalist Christian sect with West African roots. The resulting single, People Funny, Boy, "shook up the entire Jamaican music scene and gave birth to the form known as reggae," says David Katz, Lee Perry's biographer and author of Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae (Bloomsbury). At Studio One Perry...
...Colleen McNally's courtroom have little to fear. They are first offenders, convicted of possessing drugs for personal use--not of dealing--and, as such, benefit from a groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean for six weeks and hands him free tickets...
...dedicates herself to confirming and recapturing this transcendent moment. She first gives Christianity a whirl, attending services at the Greater Love Salvation Church, "a Pentecostal millenarian revivalist congregation." And although she accepts Jesus as her Saviour, she rather quickly grows annoyed at what she sees as his unresponsiveness: "Lord, sometimes I feel like you really aren't listening." Next she hitches up with a group of Buddhists but soon finds the regimen and food unpalatable, "because it seems like there's a fine line between purification and starving to death...
...Survivor and hopes it will draw some of that summer hit's young viewers. That seems iffy, not because its star was born in the middle of the past century but because its premise was. From her start belting '40s show tunes in the '70s, Midler has been a revivalist at heart, and her hooray-for-Hollywood vehicle is Jack Benny redux, a wannabe I Love Lucy with Midler as both Lucy and Ricky but without the innovation of its forebears. That said, it has the ingredients of a much better show. The writing is sometimes sophisticated, but spotty. Here...