Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town of Belmonte, perched atop a rocky hilltop in northern Portugal, is dominated by a giant stone cross, a ruined castle and the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family. On each Holy Thursday, Father Jose Marins Registo brings from the church an image of Jesus bearing the cross to Calvary. Followed by children dressed as angels, he parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house...
...sheer spectacle and expense ($18 million), nothing like it, religious or otherwise, has ever been attempted on TV. The two-part film will fill three hours of prime time on NBC on both Palm Sunday and Easter,* and it is well worth viewing. Director Zeffirelli, an Italian and a Roman Catholic, has brought to the project a rare combination of religious sensitivity and film expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph...
Died. Emile Cardinal Biayenda, 50, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brazzaville, the Congo; kidnaped from his Brazzaville home and slain. One of eight black African Cardinals, Biayenda was made the first Congolese primate by Pope Paul VI in 1973. He was killed five days after the assassination of Congolese President Marien Ngouabi, of whose socialist policies he approved. Some observers fear that the murders may be a new beginning of tribal warfare in the Congo...
Guilty or not, the Polanski contretemps reveals much about the cocaine-snorting, "anything goes" sexuality of "the new Hollywood." While the movie community has largely kept silent, Polanski's boss at Columbia Pictures admits they have a "mess" on their hands. "Roman's got such a bad reputation for being a pervert film maker," laments Columbia Production Executive Bill Tennant, "he's going to be judged guilty by his work...
...Lebanese history. His father, a Druze chieftain, was assassinated in a sectarian squabble in the 1920s, and his sister was gunned down ten months ago in her Beirut apartment. Jumblatt himself was as paradoxical as his fractured society. Educated in law at the Sorbonne in Paris and at a Roman Catholic university in Beirut, he fought throughout his career to revise the antiquated sectarian political system whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist, and a Moscow favorite who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972, he owned vast tracts...