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...play opens as Roger (Tony Roberts) and Julia (Kelly Bishop), discuss the "fourth wall...
Already, an Irish bishop, a Conservative British M.P. and the Vatican press have denounced Vidal for blasphemy, though none of them had access to the book when they went public. But LIVE from Golgotha will nettle many more. The author shrugs it all off: "Christianity is such a silly religion." As for the book's teasingly naughty humor, he washes his hands of other people's want of wit: "Sometimes the wrong word makes exactly the right joke...
...Game 5, for example, Fischer was adrift, wandering eyeless about the board. His rook moves two squares -- then, on the next move, back one. (Like gaining 8 yds. on first down, then voluntarily taking a 4-yd. loss on second.) A bishop thrusts sharply across the board -- to a useless perch at the edge of play. "What was his ((bishop)) supposed to be aiming for?" asked a bewildered Robert Byrne in the New York Times. A good question made poignant by the source. Thirty years ago, Fischer defeated Byrne in a win so beautiful it was once described as "more...
...outer space, the cure for AIDS and the date the world will end. In a new book somehow inspired by the scrolls, Barbara Thiering of Australia's University of Sydney tells of a Jesus who was crucified but secretly revived at the Dead Sea and who wed a woman bishop at midnight on March...
...home team in this movie has the shambling air of good-natured, slightly out-of-it sandlotters. Bishop (a well-cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille...