"I just exposed my son to Plato's Euthyphro, Apology and Crito.": Good choices--- holiness, integrity in the face of persecution, and the resolve to live and die faithful to the laws.
TNT is Turner Network Television, a commercial station, but with some original programming. Heston was wonderful, but I can see your hesitancy to give up Scoffield. I thought that the Heston production was a better interpretation, certainly closer to my own as a director. By the way, did you see Scoffield in "Quiz Show"? I never knew Mark Van Doren, nor have I met Charles, but both of the sons were alumni of St. John's, and I am friends with Charles' brother, John Van Doren. It was eerie to watch Scoffield--- judging by John, that is just what Mark Van Doren was like... By the way, More's views of the reformers would have to do with religion, n'est-ce pas? |