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...Despite these shortcomings, Carson has enjoyed unprecedented affection from a notoriously fickle audience. His annual income is estimated at $20 million. For more than 25 years, a series of diverse personalities, including Dick Cavett, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers and Alan Thicke, have tried in vain to depose him. Perhaps the best explanation for Carson's durability comes from the King himself. "If I had given as much to marriage as I gave to the Tonight show," he told the Los Angeles Times, "I'd probably have a hell of a marriage. But the fact is I haven't given that...
...March 19-20, The Women of Brewster Place: a preacher propositions a woman after his sermon. The next scene features them in a sex act. On an NBC program titled UNSUB, April 7: Bishop Grace murders two teenage girls in his congregation. On NBC's Quantum Leap, April 7: a scene in which the series' hero is preparing for sex with his live-in lover has Amazing Grace playing in the background. On NBC, In the Heat of the Night, Jan. 31: Rev. Haskell, who dies, had been having an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners...
...dissidents, who refuse to recognize women priests, decided to act after the February consecration of Boston's Barbara Harris as the first woman Episcopal bishop. Synod members decry the church's liberalized teachings on such matters as divorce, abortion and homosexuality. They also insist that parishes be allowed to use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer instead of the modernized worship forms that the church approved in 1979. But unlike the small factions of tradition-minded members who walked out of the Episcopal Church in the late 1970s, the Synod stops short of making a dramatic split with the Episcopal...
Instead, it has decided to stay until it either establishes its independence to do what it wants or, more likely, until the Episcopal Church expels its membership. "We must remain within the church to transform it," vows dissident Bishop David Schofield of Fresno, Calif. If separation is forced upon the flock, he states, "we will take the path when it comes." Says Bishop Clarence Pope of Fort Worth, who was elected president of the new Synod: "We are moving one step at a time to test the waters...
...Touvier case has raised embarrassing questions. Police followed his trail through several Catholic monasteries. Saint-Francois is run by right- wing followers of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, the schismatic bishop excommunicated last year. Asked Richard Wertenschlag, Grand Rabbi of Lyons: "How could ecclesiastical institutions give cover to one who committed crimes against humanity...