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DIED. JOHN RANDOLPH, 88, avuncular character actor; in Los Angeles. Familiar on TV (Roseanne) and in movies (Serpico, You've Got Mail), he had an even longer career onstage, winning a Tony for his role as a left-wing grandfather in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. The role echoed his life as a self-proclaimed "old radical" who was blacklisted in the 1950s...
...telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Particularly moving is the transformation of Simon of Cyrene, played with bitter conviction in a breakthrough performance by Jarreth Merz, who initially helps carry the cross with great reluctance, but by journey’s end is risking his own life in Christ’s defense. Perhaps the film’s most moving sequence is provided by an anonymous woman who gracefully offers Christ a bowl of water...
...telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Particularly moving is the transformation of Simon of Cyrene, played with bitter conviction in a breakthrough performance by Jarreth Merz, who initially helps carry the cross with great reluctance, but by journey’s end is risking his own life in Christ’s defense. Perhaps the film’s most moving sequence is provided by an anonymous woman who gracefully offers Christ a bowl of water...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...Simon W. Vozick-Levinson...