Mel Gibson's reply to 9/11 [by Michael Moriarty]

Enter Stage Right.com ^ | March 8, 2004 | Michael Moriarty

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the insight! Praise God for Moriarty's recovery!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the essay and link, Beau Schott! Hugs!

[Tempest]

"But the genie is out of the bottle and the anti-Christian types can do nothing to stuff it back in again."

Oh I don't know about that. I see the detractors of Christianity attacking this movie and anyone that believes in God more ferverently now than they did before.

[My back yard]

I enjoyed reading what you said, and agree. We are at a hinge point. About the movie, I think, like many things, you get out of it what you take into it.

[ambrose]

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[cake_crumb]

"Praise God."

Yep. Praise God indeed.

[duckln]

http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2001/moriarty/qtr3/0724.htm

[mdmathis6]

"I have a few devout Catholic friends. I told them, because of their lifelong faith, they are not obliged to relive the Crucifixion. They endure it in their hearts every time they look at a crucifix. Our Lord to them is now a family member and watching Him die again would be like living through the execution of our father or son.

But ... almost every 'devout' (and quite a few not so devout) Catholic I know has seen it at least once ... and most of the rest plan to. This film is the Stations of the Cross; the Sorrowful Mysteries; the Gospel readings from Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday; it is very familiar but illuminates the familiar in a new, different, vivid way."


I wonder what they would say about this saying of Peter's.."I die daily!"

[Dataman]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

[cyncooper]

I was not aware and I thank you for sharing that.

That is very impressive--to see such a profound awakening.

[fish hawk]

He and DeNiro played baseball players in "Beat the Drum Slowly and was with Clint Eastwood in "Pale Rider". Great Actor IMHO

[JURB]

That movie was none too kind to Hanoi Jane either.

[international american]

Moriarty is a highly intelligent man as well.

Education: Majored in Theater at Dartmouth and attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts as a Fulbright Scholar and a student of Stella Adler.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

Defenders of the Faith Ping!!! Kind of interesting read, nothing really discussion oriented, just thought it would make an important read. God Bless

[ArrogantBustard]

That would be St. Paul, I Cor. 15:31?

It seems either to be a reference to metaphorically dying to oneself, or to facing grave danger from persecutors of the Church. Maybe both.

[Phsstpok]

He must know that he is now also on the Hollywood blacklist, if he wasn't already.

He has been blacklisted for a long time.

He's not a conservative, per se. Nor is he a liberal.

He's an honest man. There are lots of Hollywood types who can't stand that.

He speaks truth to the powerful. It clearly offends liberals. Sometimes it offends so called conservatives. Sometimes (horrors) he's even wrong. But he always speaks the truth as clearly as he sees it, damn the consequences.

I have always found him a craftsman as an actor and always worth watching, even if I didn't like the particular film or TV show he was in. His work was always worth studying. I have often disagreed with his point of view on a subject, but I have always found his point of view worthy of consideration and honestly held and expressed.

He's one of the good guys.

P.S. ironically, I'm the designated SPOC for my company for many techie items. Single Point Of Contact.

Live long and prosper. I Grok Spok.

[unspun]

I knew I liked Michael Moriarty. For any who saw the old sci-fi spoof, we "can never get enough of the stuff" of this story.

It is the true story that is the reason there is myth. Praise our surpassingly precious Son of Man, it's our story. Yours! Mine!

[sneakers]

"It is odd that Moriarty has linked the movie, and 9/11. I have too, I'm not sure why. There are gears turning, this is our moment to stand or not stand, and I sense, feel, like we are in one of those hinge moments that determine the course of everything to follow. I feel like we are face forward into the storm, but God is with us, if we will only stand."

marron, so beautifully put. I, too, feel as if we are at a crossroads. I feel as if it's a time of choice. "Choose whom you will serve". It seems that the storm, indeed, is coming, and God is with us as we face it.

[restornu]

MM is from Detroit I worked for his brother who was a mamager of a fast food resturaunt

[Tribune7]

Another actor I can like. Actually, I've always liked him. Didn't he win some kind of award for Bang the Drum Slowly?