Elizabeth Scalia
I wrote about the film here, and in the comments Manny pointed out that Fr. Robert Barron had written about the film and also talked about it in video. Well, a weekend after seeing the film, I am still haunted by its beauty and challenge. Barron, like me, is impressed with Brother Luc’s statement that [...]
When Michael Jackson was about 11 years old, he recorded a staggeringly mature, prodigiously musical vocal of Who’s Loving You? and I thought I’d never hear another kid who could open up and sing with that sort of soul-stirring freedom. Then I heard my son Buster blasting this from across the house. I thought he’d [...]
Mary Magdalene by Antonio Veneziano graces the cover of this month’s Magnificat Magazine, and once again I find myself as engaged with the wonderful artwork this publication routinely presents, as I am with all the wonderful prayers and readings within. It’s a beautiful Icon, but the glossy Magnificat cover really brings it out in full [...]
Bartoli is perhaps the most masterful vocal technician of the modern era. Not the biggest voice, not the creamiest, but my goodness, what staggering control, what flawless ownership she takes of the music. Catch the Ave Maria at .38; do you know how difficult it is to hit that note with sweetness and restraint? It’s [...]
I knew that Peter Falk was an actor who often improvised, as his often powerful work with John Cassavetes attests, but I was still surprised to learn, first, that Falk was in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and second, that Falk largely improvised his role. Joseph Susanka discusses it all, here For me, however, the [...]
At 50th Annual Academy Awards bash of 1977, Vanessa Redgrave thanked the Academy for giving her an Oscar (for “Julia“) despite “the threats of of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums.” The respected screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky wasted no time in responding to Redgrave’s provocation: “I am sick and tired of people exploiting the Academy Awards [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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