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...matrons attired in white -- ushered hundreds to their seats, while dozens more stood. The Rev. Dr. Proctor, who will retire in June after 17 years as pastor, raised spirits and rafters with a 45-minute sermon, titled "Believing the % Unbelievable," that addressed issues ranging from Jesus' Resurrection to Joel Steinberg's fall. As 17 souls were baptized in the pool behind the pulpit, the Jewel Thompson choir tore into Take Me to the Water. That joyful noise is the church's heartbeat...
STILL, much of the show's banter is as boring and subtle as this exchange between a blitzed Senator Bedderly (Nevin Steinberg '89) and Agent Tess Tosterone: "You're drunk," she says. "And you're ugly," he retorts. And don't forget fat, an insult which finds its way into every other joke...
...Joel Steinberg case, decided two weeks ago, dwarfs them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
Once she moves in with Barry Kantor (Steinberg), himself a victim of childhood beatings, sadomasochism reigns supreme: "He didn't mean to bang my head against the wall . . . This is a man who cares so deeply, who feels so much pain...
...Joel Steinberg is convicted of manslaughter, but to some a shadow of complicity touches his companion Hedda Nussbaum -- and the child-welfare system itself...