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BFCA Television Award Nominees
Date: 05/22/2013
The nominees for this year's Broadcast Film Critics Association television awards were just announced: BEST COMEDY SERIES · The Big Bang Theory – CBS · Louie – FX · The Middle – ABC · New Girl – FOX · Parks and Recreation – NBC · Veep – HBO BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES · Don Cheadle (House of Lies) – Showtime · Louis C.K. (Louie) – FX ...
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If I programmed the broadcast networks (part two): Fox
Date: 05/15/2013
Here’s today's dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Note: This week, the broadcast networks are announcing their 2013-2014 schedules. Yesterday, I offered my thoughts on how NBC could improve its fortunes next season by moving away from so-called edgy programming toward shows that uplifted as they entertained. Now, it's on to Fox. The Fox brand: A case of dueling ident ...
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Interview: Margaret Talbot on The Entertainer
Date: 05/15/2013
I loved Margaret Talbot's book about her father, actor Lyle Talbot, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century . His career spanned the full range of entertainment from the traveling shows of the 1920's to movies in the golden age of Hollywood co-starring with Bette Davis, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple. He escorted starlet to gla ...
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One Thing Tweens and Teens Want, But Should They?
Date: 05/07/2013
They look at Justin Bieber and all his success and think, "I can do that. I can be discovered on You Tube too!" So they post, upload, pin and tumblr-- all in the hope of one thing--becoming famous! That's right, a third of teens and tweens surveyed say it is important for them to be famous. And those kids who want to be famous use social networks. Social networks allow them to create their ...
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A Review of David Horowitz's and John Perazzo's "Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream"
Date: 02/13/2013
From Benghazi to Obamacare and a staggering array of things in between, President Obama appears invulnerable when it comes to the potential disasters that have marked his presidency. That the vast majority of those in the media share his left-wing politics partially explains this—but only partially. For the full story behind the Teflon nature of Obama’s administration, it is to David Horowit ...
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Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part Three)
Date: 01/21/2013
To attempt to put a more "human face" upon all of this abstract armchair argumentation over the constitutionality and legality (or otherwise) of the government posting or supporting displays of the Ten Commandments in U.S. public schools , let's wrap things up by just trying to look at the whole issue from a much more personal angle. Suppose a Native American family -- one who perhaps still fol ...
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Why the Ten Commandments Do NOT Belong in Public Schools (Part Two)
Date: 01/19/2013
In my previous blog entry , I underscored the fact that since U.S. public schools are secular state institutions, they therefore cannot endorse or promote religion in general, or any specific religions or religious doctrines in particular. And this means that it is flatly unconstitutional for the Ten Commandments to be posted (and thereby promoted) by the state in U.S. public schools . Neverth ...
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TobyMac to perform at ABC's Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade
Date: 12/23/2012
[caption id="attachment_1258" align="alignleft" width="240"] TobyMac[/caption] GRAMMY nominated artist TobyMac will perform his hit single "Christmas This Year" at ABC’s 29th annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade. Hosted by Nick Cannon, Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos, the two-hour event will air on Christmas morning starting at 10am EST/9am CST. Other high profile artists to perform includ ...
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