Dead Man Walking spent 31 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Helen Prejean sways hearts with stories
In the twelve years since the publication of
Dead Man Walking, the U.S.
Innocence isn't everything
Sister Prejean wrote about her experiences of visiting an inmate on death row, which was the inspiration for the 1995 film
Dead Man Walking, the story of death row prisoner Matthew Poncelet.
Free Briton, says Hollywood nun
In
Dead Man Walking Helen Prejean showed us that this faith in violence and revenge is an un-Christian sort of insanity.
Amending grace: Ian McEwan's novel Atonement suggests a countercultural way to address wrongdoings. (culture in context)
And yet a kind of unadorned, gently touching sobriety seems to be just what the creators of "
Dead Man Walking," the opera based on the book that also inspired the acclaimed movie, are striving for.
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He named his doomed lineages "Dead Clade Walking," alluding to the film
Dead Man Walking, about a death-row inmate.
Groups surviving mass extinction still go bust. ((Evolution's Death Row)
Dead Man Walking (1995) contains a moment of magic as Susan Sarandon, playing Catholic nun Helen Prejean, tries to get through to the convicted killer played by Sean Penn and gently asks him, "Have you heard of Jesus Christ?" She doesn't speak much above a whisper, but it's all she needs.
Bible stories endless source of drama and (unintended) comedy
He had a global following and wrote part of the soundtrack to the hit film
Dead Man Walking.
Asian fans mourn top pop star
Though Dole's advisers had dissuaded him from making reference to The American President - the line "no President has been closer to Hollywood" was dropped - the Republican front-runner could not avoid being characterized on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as "a grumpy old man" (Hollywood wags would soon be calling him "
dead man walking").
State of denial
The idiot god called Market ordained that
Dead Man Walking would be sent into movie houses in December, there to mingle with the full range of American wares: a nightmare for children starring Robin Williams, a chest-thumping contest between alpha-male actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, a Geena Davis swashbuckler.
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Former EastEnders star Rita Simons talks to KERRIANN ROPER about new film The Krays:
Dead Man Walking and why it was important that her new role was as far removed from Roxy Mitchell as possible I RITA SIMONS believes in the law of attraction.
Former EastEnders star Rita Simons [...]
Pardew is a
dead man walking at the top-flight basement side after just one win in 16 league games.
BAGGIES TO MAKE PARDS SLOG IT OUT
Or perhaps they fail to notice that if Osama bin Laden really is sauntering jauntily into Cabinet rooms he must be a
dead man walking.
Cracking the whip
Sister Helen Prejean, the death penalty critic and author of the 1993 book "
Dead Man Walking" that was later made into an Oscar-winning film, will speak at 2 p.m.
Buzzworthy
CRIME boss Ger Dundon begged to be put protective custody behind bars after being warned: "You're a
dead man walking."
GER A DEAD MAN WALKING; Dundon in fear over prison threat