David. A man for all seasons. A minstrel whose songs will be sung as long as vocal chords vibrate in humanity’s throat. A happy warrior whose paths of glory saunter across a score of bloody battlefields. A prince of peace who knew, as did General Sherman, that "war is hell." An astute politician whose savvy grasp of statecraft reveal him as a Machiavellian prince of the first rank. An athlete knowing full well what "Wide World of Sports" likes to call "the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat." David: poet, prince, and praise-singer. David: sinner and saint. David. Here was a man.

The Color Purple is Steven Spielberg’s film based on Alice Walker’s novel about a homely and downtrodden Georgia black woman. In the movie, "purple is a life-giving color symbolic of love and hope."

Marc Chag…