Glad to see this comment. That's the one I should have seen on Sunday instead of A Christmas Tale. Hope it's still there this coming Sunday so I can see it then.

Stood out is right: He was horrible. The only time I have to say that about him.

Stood out is right: He was horrible. The only time I have to say that about him.

Yambu.......You reign as resident effete reader. I loved In the Garden. Have you read The Reader or Revolutionary Road? I'm sure you haven't read Marley & Me.

See me in the Reading Room.

But someone pleeeeeze tell me. Why was Jon Hamm's victory not on the show? Or did I miss it? Or what? Please inform ASAP.

And, oh, also, why was Damages not nominated for a single thing?

Oooh ~ an assignation...

I'm reading fast so I hope I'm not repeating another post.

First, Jon Hamm didn't win. Now I can't remember who did. But you can be sure I will once I log out. Oh, wait. I think he was grouped with mini-series and specials. Gabriel Byrne won. [I think]

Damages wasn't nominated because it wasn't eligible. The second season just started. I think there was a 18 month lag between seasons.

Or a summons...

Doubt could not have been any closer to my own early days, having done eight years in a Bronx Catholic grade school in the '50's. I recognized the church interior as that of St. Gabriel's in Riverdale.

The film was extremely powerful for me, getting all the atmospherics exactly right. Streep, all pinched-face and on constant guard against any slight deviation from her imposed order, who rules by terror "because it works" and never with love, is that severe autocrat who I and my contemporaries had in class at least once. What was a given was that, while the Fr. Boyle character and others may have disapproved of her, no one challenged her authority to run her fiefdom the way she saw fit; and looking back, this was the root of so much abuse handed out to kids every day.

Viola Davis, playing a black mother, gives us only one scene, but it is the best supporting role I've seen in a year. In it, the movie turns sharply, and that's all I dare say. kudos to John Patrick Shanley.

.....and you two I'll see in the Principal's office.

Doubt is theoretically addressing current issues, isn't it? If the movie resonates with your childhood experiences, that suggests to me that it fails in its intention, and that it has more to do with adults of previous generations remembering their Catholic childhoods, than with addressing the issues of the Church today.

This is still an issue today because so much of the older clergy including the current pope entered the church before Vatican II.