Sanctuary! (The White Queen and Logan’s Run)

Anyone who has Starz has doubtless been watching The White Queen, perhaps the best of these elaborate, colorful and sexed-up history series on cable movie channels. And in recent episodes, nobles, especially women, have been keeping themselves safe in Sanctuary inside the church. And just last week, TCM’s sci-fi spotlight had Logan’s Run on, another movie dealing with Sanctuary. Only in the case of Logan’s Run, Sanctuary is what the “Sandmen” (executioners who kill everyone upon reaching the age of 30) are looking for so as to stamp it out. And so every time I hear someone referring to Sanctuary in The White Queen, I see in my mind Sandmen from Logan’s Run appearing in the church and exclaiming: “Sanctuary! I knew it existed! Kill the runners!” And then the Sandmen would shoot everyone with their laser guns, crying: “Renew! Renew!”