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This is the faith that moves mountains. At Christmastime in Axum, ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, reputed sanctuary of the Ark of the Covenant and heart of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, such devotion is commonplace. Nothing has ever succeeded in crushing the simple rituals of piety that have been practiced here since the 4th century--not the communist ideology that ruled Ethiopia for much of the past two decades, not the cynicism of the modern age, not the latest plagues of civil war, famine, poverty and AIDS...
Jackie Brown may not win over every aficionado of Grier's early work. In Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, Grier's characters were at war with crooked cops and white power brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer...
Without making a big deal about it, Lancaster had artistic ambitions. Early on he smartly inhabited characters created by prestige dramatists: the returning soldier in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the drunken husband in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, the buffoonish Italian suitor (a terrific turn) in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tatoo...
That mouth, impish or hellacious, is where Whoopi Goldberg goes one up on the world. Twist it, she's a funny little troll. Smile like the Queen of Sheba, she is the Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want...
Take Anna, a 33-year-old mother of two from Baku, who once worked as a chemical analyst in a hospital. She now lives in a caravan site outside of Be-er Sheba, where little employment is available for even the native Israelis who live in the area...