'Jesus' on CBS
Garvey, Michael O.
M E I A Michael 0. Garve y CATHOLIC....
...her, "It can't be with you...
...After the Resurrection, Jesus close like a trap, nor does he wonder Immediately before preaching a bowd- fades out from the upper room into a cealoud how much longer he must put up lerized Sermon on the Mount ("Wealth lestial immensity of blue sky and sappy with a faithless and perverse generation...
...They apparently won't get him a clever performance by Gary Oldman illustrated...
...He bears no poses no authoritative demands and arranged pieta may be bathed in a lachrywarning that the day of judgment will speaks with endearing self-deprecation...
...As a conse- ing Mary that his earthly father's death AMERICAN quence, our Lord is once again presented "has ended my life as I know it, and it's TH, L-Fi 0f as the only male inhabitant of Roman- time now that I find my way...
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...Vincent DePaul's vision for higher education...
...You can almost hear the director He is not a consuming fire, but a very this Jesus glances about himself with a muttering "yadayadayada...
...But the anoint- the Socialist Party, of a nightmare, a dream-presumably ing at Bethany is omitted from this epic and was there for all the more disorienting to him than to the au- miniseries, as are nearly all of the major movements-from dience-of savage Crusaders, ruthless Gospel's many numinous narrative speed labor to civil rights...
...their way to Bethany, where they have ...cow a thousand men In this bracingly honest contracted with Lazarus for some car- On the hills o' Galilee...
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...PUBLICAFFAIRS A Member of the Perseus Books Grou Commonweal 17 May 5, 2000 Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the Age Guy are such unadulterated bad Mary songs: "When does it stop...
...among the baddest of all possible guys), have been lifted from the pages of Marvel Nor is Suzette Couture's script for manages to seem as drearily wicked as Comics or Treasure Chest...
...M E I A Michael 0. Garve y CATHOLIC...
...guys as Herod, Caiaphas, and Pontius disgusted Barabbas should hardly be In the opinion of Pound's narrator, Pilate, who, despite being given a much blamed for slugging him...
...over the feet of an appreciative Jesus, dry- He cut his teeth in Jesus is introduced while in the throes ing them with her hair...
...mose rain...
...biography, noted historian pentry work...
...His inquisitors, and fatally wounded in- bumps...
...He awakens beside Joseph- peaceful households...
...does not buy life and a good heart...
...dI 49066010 world much better, and even to sympathize with them a little...
...takes place in front of a picturesque aquesimply jettisoned any of the disconcerting The Lord of an epic miniseries must duct that ruptures at the death of Jesus things that the Gospel writers have said not be overly judgmental, so this one im- so that Sisto and Bisset's perfectly about or attributed to Jesus...
...HUMAN...
...Beginning in Chicago over 100 years ago as tiny St...
...music...
...Something like, "You, win, Jesus...
...The only people in that such bloodshed affronts his Father's reveal as well a glimpse of what the Judea able to resist this sensitive New will, but merely echo old Peter, Paul, and Gospels cost...
...AMERICAN...
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...He is supposed to have During its Centennial year, DePaul became the largest Catholic university despairingly exclaimed, "Vicisti, Galilaee...
...Whatever else he played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, who may be, the messiah of CBS is decidedly poverty and ushered in a looks, sounds, and acts remarkably like not the Goodly Fere of Ezra Pound's new era of social reform...
...perial paganism...
...The Vincent's College, the identity of DePaul was forged in response to its emperor's famous last words inspired a urban setting...
...Even as Jesus Jim Jones all reveal a glimpse of the teeth a giggle or two while he skips rocks on expresses his abhorrence of the slashing and claws of religious faith...
...In eight thematic essays, this book interprets the social, line which Algernon Charles Swinburne intellectual, and economic challenges that stimulated a unique realization used to taunt the fatuous churchgoing of St...
...Centennial Essays Some three hundred years after the events so feebly recounted in this televiand Images sion program, Julian the Apostate lay fatally wounded and brooding over the colA thematic history of America's lapse of his efforts to revive Rome's imlargest Catholic university...
...In Saint John's This production is, according to the account, this same Mary will later, over A new book by oxymoron of a CBS publicist, "an epic the understandable objections of a more Maurice Isserman miniseries," a pretty accurate label for practical disciple, pour costly fragrant oil these four hours of bland television...
...the old Geppetto of Walt Disney's Pinoc- poem, who could But his story has never been chio cartoon-in a roadside bivouac on truly told-until now...
...She has Jesus manages to seem drearily good...
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...Call 1-800-228-0810 Michael O. Garvey is the author of Finding Fault...
...Roger Geiger Whether or not Swinburne was just anCollege of Education, Penn State University other narcissistic Victorian tilting against DePaul University Centennial Essays and Images a preposterous, Anglicized caricature of edited by John L. Rury and Charles S. Suchar KENO ALL 1 HUN T the Lord, to view this epic miniseries is PUBLISHING COMPANY 1998/192 pages/perfect/$29.95* [1 4050 Weak o,n,e P.a...
...agreeable and idealistic young man-the rueful shrug, asking his apostles, "Do The recent conflagration in Kanungu, son, after all, of Jacqueline Bisset-who you think I'll have something to say...
...To those who the Sea of Galilee or plays whirligig with of Roman throats, his words yield no hint yearn for what the Gospels promise, they a delighted child...
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...bourgeoisie of his own time: "Thou hast conquered, 0 pale Galilean...
...The baptism of Jesus might in an epic miniseries, either...
...role to Jeremy Sisto, a luxu- This, obviously, cannot be, and short- THE OTHER 1 riantly hirsute, good-looking surfer-type ly after Joseph dies, Jesus shows up again with a pleasant baritone, a ready smile, in Bethany tenderly, but firmly, informand excellent orthodontia...
...Uganda, and similar holocausts of Branch laments the sway of anger and fear in the When he stumbles across the aftermath of Davidians, Heaven's Gate disciples, world...
...FATHER...
...the world "[A] paradigmatic study of American Catholic urban higher education...
...ENEMY...
...Jesus curses no fig trees, terrifies book The Other America fantrymen all bellowing his name as they no Gerasene peasants, announces no dis- woke a prosperity-lulled wreak and suffer the carnage of future turbing intention to divide previously nation to the ravages of millennia...
...The sea...
...Simon Zelotes, "They'll no' get Him a' in more active and treacherous role than When the narrative is more carefully a book I think, though they write it cun- the evangelists assigned him, and despite aligned with Scripture, it is mawkishly ningly...
...There is plenty of goodnatured a Zealot guerrilla raid, he confronts Knights of the Solar Temple, adherents horseplay with his disciples, a jubilant Barabbas to plead in vain for the life of of Aum Shin Rikyo, and the followers of water splashing contest at a village well, a captured Roman soldier...
...When MICHAEL HARRINGTON occupied Judea with shoulder-length hair Mary asks where his way is, Jesus tells and a flower child's bonhomie...
...SOCIALIST...
...Dr...
...What CBS reveals in 'Jesus" is a glimpse of something like Warner Sallmari s famous painting The Head of Christ, a bland and thoroughly domestiDEPAUL UNIVERSITY cated savior, neither promising nor costing much at all...
...he casting director of crush on each other, which Martha and "Jesus" (CBS, May 14 and Lazarus not only approve but are en- HARRINGTON, T 17) has assigned the starring couraging toward matrimony...
...The crucifixion "Jesus" so cunningly written...
...There it quickly transpires They whined as He walked out Maurice Isserman that Jesus and Mary Magdalene have a calm between, examines the man, his times, and his legacy...
...has grown grey from thy breath...
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