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...Saint of Lost Things, Christopher Castellani...
...world is changing. The old giants of the USSR are toppling , and no one knows whether to pray to the saint or Lenin, or simply to despair...
...President Kennedy by Richard Reeves. We knew he was no saint. Now we have 800 carefully researched pages to tell us that J.F.K. was more Hollywood than Harvard, a gifted politician who relied on his charm rather than deep understanding and conviction. He was often ''careless and dangerously disorganized.'' The image of vigor was also an illusion: hormone shots compensated for failing adrenal glands and amphetamines perked him up. Reeves' dose of reality is a needed antidote to the cloying hagiographies that have marked the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death...
...seeing Downey as the blundering clown, and he’s pretty good as a fast-talking New Yorker in Hollywood. Despite his character’s sexuality, Kilmer essentially plays the same tough guy he did in “Spartan” and “The Saint...
...hope, wouldn't prevent someone from becoming a priest," he says. All four church-contracted psychologists interviewed by TIME agreed vociferously with his contention that homosexuality doesn't make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening of the admission process is appropriate: "I think to a certain extent the Vatican is correct in trying to weed out unhealthy expressions of the homosexual experience." But he is also worried that tougher guidelines might backfire by encouraging gay or sexually...