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PG-13 movies outperform (but don’t outnumber) R-rated films + a noted priest weighs in on “War on Christmas” + Pope Benedict biopic planned
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Of course, Strictly by the numbers, it doesn’t add up. From The Wrap: This year, 168 films have carried the “restricted” (R) rating, which requires youths under 17 to be accompanied by an adult, and they have taken in $2.3 billion at the box…
“It’s a War on Christmas, Charlie Brown”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Lighten up, already! From Fox News Radio: A stage version of the beloved holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has sparked a constitutional controversy at a Little Rock, Ark. grade school. Students at Terry Elementary School had been invited to attend an upcoming performance…
Oscar/Emmy winning producer of “Scared Straight” and “Rescue 911” tackles the power of forgiveness in new GMC TV show
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. In my review yesterday of GMC TV’s I Forgive You, a praised the show as a welcome antidote to “a TV reality landscape that is too often filled with in-your-face anger” and noted that “forgiveness actually makes for some pretty absorbing television.” It turns…
Kathie Lee Gifford talks about how her own life and trials prepared her to bring the story of scandalized 1920’s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to Broadway
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Kathie Lee’s Scandalous quest. The iconic performer and talk show host spent a good part of the last dozen years inching toward bringing Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson to the Great White Way. She wrote both the lyrics and the…
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