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...fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans have fulminated about welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 black churches in Alabama and six other Southern and Border states have been torched...
...civil rights movement. But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation. "The church stands as a symbol of black pride and self-sufficiency,'' says Rose Sanders, a black lawyer in Selma. "Burning one is as close as you can come to a lynching without killing somebody...
This lesson comes hard to 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt). His mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly, bravely, of cancer, and his father Sid (John Turturro) cannot offer him much consolation. In the best of times, Sid is a tense and cranky figure, obsessively working on impractical inventions. In these, the worst of times, he is mostly preoccupied with cursing God, fate and Selma's doctors. The kid badly needs a dose of chicken soup and diversion...
Diane Keaton's first fictional feature suggests that early, massive exposure to eccentricity can be the best possible preparation for the life that follows. This lesson comes hard to 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt), whose mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) is dying slowly and bravely of cancer. His cranky, obsessive father Sid (John Turturro) is of little consolation. It's up to Sid's kooky brothers Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) and Arthur (Maury Chaykin) to get Steven safely through his first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood. "Helped by terrific acting and Richard La Gravenese's wonderfully modulated...
...DIED. SELMA BURKE, 94, artist; in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Burke rose to prominence in the creative caldron of New York City's "Harlem Renaissance." You may be carrying her best-known work at this very moment--the profile of Franklin Roosevelt that appears on the dime, which is based on a drawing Burke rendered on butcher paper after a 1943 encounter with F.D.R...