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Although Chesterton was to become a Catholic apologist, Thursday was written long before his conversion, and it does not yield to simple theological analysis. Sunday may be God; he may just as easily be Satan or the State. The council is a satiric conceit; it is also a social prophecy that antedates Kafka's The Trial by 15 years and the CIA by two generations. Syme's story rings with the sonorities of the Book of Job. It is also a splendid detective yarn...
...never been in demand for romantic leads, but his get-up for The Devil's Rain, an occult thriller just filmed in Durango, Mexico, gives eyesore new meaning. In the movie, which co-stars Ida Lupino and William Shatner, Borgnine returns from the dead as a disciple of Satan-with help from a three-hour facial by the makeup experts for Planet of the Apes. The citizens of Durango have seen 65 movies shot in their town, but this one has managed to unnerve them. Because of the film's supernatural goings on, people working near the sets...
Muhammad denied that he promoted hatred toward whites. If not hatred, it was contempt: whites were "the human beast-the serpent, the dragon, the devil and Satan." The white race, he taught, had been bred 6,000 years ago by a black scientist. In an insanely logical moment, the Nation of Islam once invited American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell to a meeting and heard him laud Elijah Muhammad as the "Adolf Hitler of the black...
LaZabnik can't quite keep up the pace. It's a little bit predictable to have God call Satan a "little devil" and he seems to think that just repeating words like "rhubarb" and "maraschino cherry" and "kumquat" will get laughs as surely as the name "Brooklyn" will once supposed...
...cast, on the whole, is fine, Dick Bloom, Jim O'Connell and Ken LaZebnik make an energetic, professional and effective male chorus; David Goldbloom is Satan carries much of the show along by his shoer bravaoo, Douglas Hughes plays the closest the show has to a straight man, with consistent, aplomt and a fine voice. "The Nords" (Nancy Abrams Amy Berman and Patty Low) are very funny when deadpanning the lines of a fake Greek chorus...