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West Germany's Jews have excoriated Lapide's view as outrageous. Some scholars complain that he has made highly selective use of Jewish sources, including the medieval sage Maimonides. It is "a terrible shock. He has overstepped the bounds of Jewish theology," snaps liberal German Rabbi Peter Levinson. "If I believed in Jesus' Resurrection I would be baptized tomorrow...
...hectic pace demands actors who can keep up with it, and here the Loeb production is blessed. William Falk--who plays Voltaire, Dr. Pangloss, the malevolent Spanish Governor, a Sultan and a Sage--gives five masterful performances and dominates the show from start to finish. With breathtakingly fast costume changes, Falk bounces between characters and never loses control. Even his face seems to change when he switches from the kindly Voltaire to the murderous Governor. His various accents are all convincing and consistent...
...Repole) is slight in stature but huge in hypochondria, and so full of pills that when he sneezes "people around me get cured." By happenstance, Henry extricates Sally Morgan, a coy maiden winsomely played by Beth Austin, from the maritally-minded clutches of Sheriff Bob (J. Kevin Scannell), a sage brush Keystone Kop. Sally's true love is Hiawatha, or rather, Wanenis (Franc Luz), a noble North American savage from red-blooded Dartmouth. She gets him, and after a number of featherbrained misadventures, Henry finds perfect health and pneumatic bliss in the arms of a lusty-voiced, opulently endowed...
...three-year-old son Sage wanted to see his old man on the Muppet Show, so Sylvester Stallone, 32, got himself invited, playing a gladiator vs. a Muppet lion. Besides, it was a way to live out his own childhood fantasy. "Ever since I was eight, I've wanted to be a gladiator," says the hero of Rocky. "Usually, when I have a fantasy, I make a movie. This saved me from 22 weeks of moviemaking." Probably a good thing, considering Stallone's last two films, F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley...
...main theme of much of his highly intellectual, harsh and often violent poetry, he later wrote, was "man suffering from unbelief," and in 1950 he joined the Roman Catholic Church. He had much in common with T.S. Eliot, whom he vastly admired. Eliot once described Tate as a "sage" who "believes in reason rather than enthusiasm," knowing that "many problems are insoluble...