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...fellow with star quality, to purge his community of official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have fun and lock up an Oscar nomination. Ghosts of Mississippi argues fervently for racial equality in the New South; yet in its perpetuation of the caste system in Hollywood dramas, the film is anything but an affirmative action...
...religious journalist, delves into Marian history with less authority but with the once-burned affection of a woman who, rummaging recently through a drawer, was moved to discover her old rosary. Cunneen qualifies as a Catholic feminist: she is painfully aware of the line that runs between Saint Athanasius' 4th century contention that Mary "remained continually at home, living a retired life and imitating a honeybee" and the impossibly pure, impossibly obedient "Housewife Mary" rejected by many of Cunneen's peers in the 1960s...
...flesh of Madonna. The take is dense and studious, an aptly conservative adaptation of a pop classic; it lets the score seduce and the star shine. Madonna, who is up to the vocal demands of the role, makes Eva--sexual predator, social climber, queen of the Argentine, would-be saint--an appealing character in a cautionary fable. The moral: celebrity needs suffering and early death as its price and consummation...
...other spin-offs included a picture of me on the set of the TV mini-series Titanic [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 25]. I liked the photo. I had a life jacket and a dog, but no name. Did my caption capsize? I have a sinking feeling it did. EVA MARIE SAINT Los Angeles...
...whistles. Mormon sites offer links to vast genealogical databases, while YaaleVe' Yavo, an Orthodox Jewish site, forwards E-mailed prayers to Jerusalem, where they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented online by a Website...