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Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love - none...
...Though the evening's purpose was primarily to raise money for Hillary, it was also designed as a tribute to Bill. Mary Steenburgen reminisced about her early years in Arkansas with the fading President. Whoopi Goldberg thanked the President for allowing her into the White House (and not checking inside her bag on her way out). Cher sang - or at least lip-synced - "Believe." Then, as an apology after admitting to not voting for him, she gave a nice rendition of "If I Could Turn Back Time." Diana Ross took the stage in a big yellow feathery coat and grouched...
...some life in the party. Last week TIME shadowed Smith as he prepared for the Democrats' arrival: On Monday, Aug. 7, seated before more than three dozen party officials, production coordinators and crew members, Smith runs through the convention day by day. "We may have Whoopi doing the Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday night," he says, and he explains the breakdown of TV coverage. The convention will build each day toward the hour of 7 p.m. (Los Angeles time); that's when the major networks turn on their cameras, so it's the convention's "prime time." The opening night...
...thought everything was crap," says editor Tara Ariano, "we wouldn't go see four movies a week." Fametracker simply wants justice: "Do you know," says Giancarlo Esposito's audit, "how many underappreciated, underrecognized and underutilized actors--like Giancarlo Esposito--could be made famous simply by stripping Whoopi Goldberg of her fame and dispensing it to the deserving?" Preach...
...excellent as it was when he was a star. It suffices only to get the pair off on a cross-country odyssey aimed at thwarting the bad guys. Conducted by a naive FBI agent (Piper Perabo), they do encounter some fitfully funny comic actors (John Goodman, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg), but neither the guest stars nor the sublimely numb Bullwinkle manages to rescue the picture from its too comfortable reliance on retro charm. It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth...