Sister Jodie is like, available for spiritual direction or whatever. Just go to "TV Guide" and ask for her by name. She's like really cool. Deep and kinda profound thingy too.
Posted on 06/08/2002 2:37:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
The current disgrace in the Roman Catholic church couldn't have arisen at a worse time for Jodie Foster. Although The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys — her new indie debuting June 14 — has nothing to do with child-molesting clergy, its title does ring an unfortunate note just now.
"That was the title of the book [the movie is based on], which is a cult classic," Foster tells TV Guide Online. "A lot of people really love [author] Chris Fuhrman — he died shortly after writing the book and we would never consider changing the title. I really hope people don't come to the movie thinking it's about pederasty or avoid the movie because [of that].
"But it is an interesting time for the Catholic church," the Panic Room star muses. "Honestly, five years ago, if you'd said to me, 'You know, there's molestation in the Catholic church,' I would have said, 'Yeah? Like we don't know that?!'
"So, I'm a little confused — not that people are shocked, but the level of surprise is really, really confusing to me. The scandal would not keep me from seeing this movie."
What is Altar Boys about? Set in the '70s, this Stand by Me-ish coming-of-age tale stars Foster as Sister Assumpta — a one-legged nun who keeps stern watch over her rambunctious young charges, including Kieran Culkin and Stepmom's Jena Malone.
She laughs that a tough nun "is just something I'd never played before and I thought it was good casting. I'm so not who you would think of, being small and kind of frail-looking and youngish. But I think that's always a good departure." — Daniel R. Coleridge
Sister Jodie is like, available for spiritual direction or whatever. Just go to "TV Guide" and ask for her by name. She's like really cool. Deep and kinda profound thingy too.
Regards, Ivan
| Editorial Reviews From Booklist On the cusp of adolescence, some 13-year-old boys band together, swigging the Sacrament wine behind their priests' backs and drawing illicit comic books depicting nuns and priests engaged in--you guessed it--sex. This fictional memoir of a Catholic boyhood concentrates on the coming-of-age of its narrator, Francis, who a year before the book begins, at 12, attempted suicide. No wonder, considering the dark underside of punitive Catholicism that Francis' story puts generously on display, not least in the figure of the boy's father, who literally beats his son bloody for not eating scorched corned beef. Francis' mother looks on horror-struck and cowed; afterward she is helpless except for the salve she administers. As Francis blunders through his first sexual encounter with a much more experienced girl, gets himself muddy and bloody in school-yard fights with his buddies, and eventually faces the frailty of human life, this darkly comic work by an author who died young well before its publication takes on an increasingly savage tone full of foreboding, grief, and very Catholic reparation. Whitney Scott |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys : A Novel by Chris Fuhrman |
Well, I was an alter boy. Many of my friends were alter boys. None of this has any relevance to me or anyone I've known... Sounds like more jackass Hollywood stuff to me...
-- KotS
...the boy's father, who literally beats his son bloody for not eating scorched corned beef...
The Catholic angle aside, don't you ever get tired of Hollywood's depiction of Irishmen and Irish-Americans?
Two more movies on my "to rent" list.
Heather had two mommies.
And had two children with a turkey baster.
Gets snippy when asked about it all.
Priests doing altar boys? She doesn't see the scandal.
She is however, "a little confused".
But that won't stop her bestowing her regal opinions on the "little people"--noblesse oblige.
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