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No Rest for the Frugal
BY Brother John Raymond Is the Web's well of freebies running dry?
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue 
Is the free lunch over on the Internet?
An obvious rule of thumb for a business is that it must eventually make a profit, or at least break even, to survive. Many free services on the Internet had investors behind them, holding them afloat until they turned a profit from their banner ads. When the... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
The Crossing (1999)
In December 1776, six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the war looked like it would drag on for years. The continental soldiers were ill-clothed and ill-fed, seemingly defenseless against both the British and the freezing winter.
This cable-TV movie... READ MORE
Romper Reconnaissance
BY John Prizer Spy Kidsis a blast
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
Spy movies can be divided into two categories.
The first is cynical and non-heroic, with aspirations to political realism and an understanding of the dark side of human nature (The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Ipcress File, The Mask of Dimitrios, etc.). The second revels in fantasy, action... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
APRIL, VARIOUS DATES
The Face: Jesus in Art PBS; check local listings for day and time
The Catholic Communication Campaign helped fund this visually stunning film, which takes viewers around the world and through the ages to examine artistic representations of Christ. The program... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Dan Engler
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
HOLY WEEK
Rome's Hidden Churches: A Lenten Pilgrimage
EWTN, 9:45 p.m. Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Come along with EWTN on Lenten procession to many of Rome's station churches, following in the footsteps of popes and pilgrims through the centuries.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8
The Ten... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992)
Movies are meant to be looked at as well as listened to; images are as important to cinematic storytelling as dialogue. The cinematographer, or cameraman, is the key to this process, using his craft to further the director's vision and, at times,... READ MORE
Lights … Camera … Sainthood?
BY Andrew Walther Devotees want to see filmmaking priest canonized
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
In the midst of the media frenzy over the Academy Awards, no one mentioned the name of Father Patrick Peyton, a Catholic filmmaker, radio personality and worldwide rosary crusader.
That's not surprising — Father Peyton has been nominated for a status that doesn't much interest the mainstream news... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Dan Engler
March 25-31, 2001 Issue
All times Eastern
VARIOUS DATES
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
PBS; check local listings for day and time
This weekly program provides more balance than most television reporting of religious news. The show, produced by WNET New York and distributed by PBS on Fridays at 5 p.m., discusses religious... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
March 25-31, 2001 Issue
The Leopard (1963)
The goal of most revolutions is the removal of a ruling class to achieve economic and social justice. But sometimes the result is merely the replacement of one elite by another. The Leopard, one of the Vatican's top 45 films, presents the revolutionary upheavals in Sicily of the... READ MORE
How to Discern Online Deceit
BY Brother John Raymond Information and misinformation often sit side by side on 'Catholic' Web sites
March 25-31, 2001 Issue
For Catholics looking to learn more about their faith, the Internet is like a massive library that's always expanding.
That's the good news. The bad new is, you have to watch where you wander in these virtual aisles, because a number of their shelves have been tainted: They contain cleverly... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler All times Eastern
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
St. Thérèse in Carmel
EWTN, 8 p.m.
This 90-minute French production uses photos and excerpts from the Little Flower's journal to recreate her holy life of “the little way” in the cloistered Carmel in Lisieux, France, from her entrance at age 15 in 1888 until her death on Sept. 30,... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
This Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel is the chronicle of a Welsh coal-mining family in the early 20th century as remembered by its youngest son (Roddy McDowall). Huw Morgan's father (Donald Crisp) and five older brothers work in the mines. However, Huw is... READ MORE
Oscar the Lech: What the Awards Say About Hollywood
BY John Prizer
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
Everyone, it seems, is dazzled by the stars and the glitter of the Oscars.
The Academy Awards Show is one of TV's most-watched annual events. Hundreds of millions of viewers around the world vicariously participate in the movie industry's salute to its best and brightest. Hollywood's most luminous... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
March 11-17,2001 Issue
Freedom Song (2000)
This cable-TV movie, is set in the small town of Quinlan, Miss., in 1961.
Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon) is an African-American teen-ager who's trained by an out-of-state political organizer, Daniel Wall (Vondi Curtis Hall), to sit in at libraries, bus stations and lunch... READ MORE
Old Time Gregorian Chant
March 11-17,2001 Issue
Sung to the tune of “Old Time Rock & Roll” as performed by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Just take those old records off the shelf You know I'm listenin' to somethin' else Today's music ain't got the same slant I dig that old time Gregorian chant
Don't want to hear about the new craze That... READ MORE
Laughing All the Way to the Church
BY Tim Drake
March 11-17,2001 Issue
By day he's a computer programmer, by night the Catholic answer to “Weird Al” Yankovic.
In Nick Alexander's case, the words he puts to pop music tunes aren't just funny; they're Catholic and, at times, instructive, too. His first CD, “A Time to Laugh,” features parodies of such songs as Sonny &... READ MORE
Weekly TV Picks
BY Daniel J. Engler
KEYWORDS: Arts
February 18-24,2001 Issue
All times Eastern
SUNDAY, FEB. 18
The Daytona 500
Fox, 1 p.m.
NASCAR kicks off the 53rd Winston Cup stock car racing season with this 500-mile classic. Always a thrill ride, the venerable Daytona 500 is one of some two dozen races that new NASCAR venues Fox and NBC will broadcast this year.
SUNDAY,... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
BY John Prizer
KEYWORDS: Arts
February 18-24,2001 Issue
Joseph: King of Dreams(2000)
Sequels are sometimes a good thing. After Dreamworks' success with The Prince of Egypt, which told the story of Moses, the studio has once again combined state-of-the-art hand-drawn and computer animation with Broadway-like show tunes to create a reverent biblical epic.... READ MORE
Shout it From the Satellites
BY Daniel J.Engler
KEYWORDS: Arts Vatican TV to be beamed to the Americas
February 18-24,2001 Issue
If you're one of the millions of Americans who tune out today's sleazy, phony “reality-TV” programs, here's good news: Real reality-TV is here.
“Vatican TV” is coming to the Americas for the first time, thanks to the Vatican's new “CTV to America” project. The Centro Televisivo Vaticano (Vatican... READ MORE
Weekly Video Picks
Feb. 11-17, 2001 Issue
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Craftsmen who are more interested in doing excellent work than in making money are a rare breed, and the communities where they earn their living usually treat them with great respect. Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier) is a skilled small-town carpenter who keeps... READ MORE
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