John Shea (3/96 Forgotten Sins)
Excerpt from Berkeleyan 3/6/96: John Shea | Forgotten Sins
Sociology Professor Featured In TV Movie 'Forgotten Sins'
An ABC-TV movie Thursday, March 7, exploring the concept of recalled memory features the work of sociology professor Richard Ofshe protrayed by actor William Devane.
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In the Bay Area, the movie airs at 9 p.m. on Channel 7. It co-stars John Shea and Bess Armstrong.
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Excerpt from Variety 3/6/96: John Shea
Review: ‘ABC Thursday Night Movie Forgotten Sins’
March 6, 1996 | 11:00PM PT John P. McCarthy
Deputy Sheriff Matthew Bradshaw (John Shea) and family reside in a hotbed of evangelical Christianity.
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Thumbs up for the entire acting troupe for handling relatively complex emotions. Shea brings a scent of masochism to his bogus struggle to remember.
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Excerpt from Seattle Times 3/7/96: John Shea
Washington Man's Tale Explored In `Forgotten Sins'
John Voorhees Thursday, March 7, 1996 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
If what's happening in "Forgotten Sins," the ABC movie airing at 9 tonight on KOMO-TV, starts to sound familiar, it is because it is based on events involving Paul R. Ingram, a deputy sheriff in Thurston County, who, in 1989, admitted sexually molesting his daughters and involvement in a Satanic cult, none of which was ever proven beyond Ingram's insistence it had happened. It was such a bizarre story it caught the attention of Lawrence Wright who wrote about it in a series of attention-getting articles in The New Yorker, which served as the basis for T.S. Cook's film script. The setting is not identified but looks vaguely Californian and the central character is now named Matthew Bradshaw and played by John Shea. Bess Armstrong plays his wife and William Devane plays the sociologist who was called in by the prosecution but who soon begins to realize there's no evidence that any of the things Bradshaw claims to remember actually happened. And, in the film, by the time Bradshaw realized this, he's unable to escape a prison term.
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Excerpt from New York Magazine 3/11/96: John Shea
Television: Missing in Action
John Leonard
With Forgotten Sins (Thursday, March 7; 9 to 11 pm; ABC), network television has come full circle in only six years. Do You Know the Muffin Man? launched the prime-time craze for satanic ritual abuse in 1989. John Shea starred, as a cop who came to believe that his child had been molested at a preschool where the curriculum included porn Polaroids, Black Mass pentagrams, bloody altars, and murdered rabbits. Shea also stars in Forgotten Sins, again as a cop, who this time believes his daughters when they claim that he abused them, and that half his buddies on the force did, too. He is encouraged in this delusion, unto prison, by religious nuts, crazed prosecutors, bullying therapists, and natch, the Vampire Media.
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