Faith, Media and Culture

Here are today’s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. NBC affiliate says no to Playboy Club. From The Wrap: KSL-TV, NBC’s Salt Lake City affiliate, says it will not air the fall drama “The Playboy Club.” The station said the decision was based on a policy of not airing…

Here are today’s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Spider-Man movie producer dies. From The Wrap: “Spider-Man” producer Laura Ziskin died Sunday evening. She was 61 and had been battling breast cancer for seven years…She was best known for her work on the “Spider-Man” franchise, which brought in over $1.5…

Here’s this morning’s Faith, Media & Culture Hot List: 1. Actor L. Warren Young  sees something special in Field of Vision. The talented African-American actor, who you may recognize for his roles in such films as The Blind Side and We Are Marshall, says the TV movie (airing tonight at 8:00 PM ET on NBC)…

Looking for good things to watch on TV or at the movies here are some suggestions. 1. Field of Vision (Saturday 8:00 ET, NBC) Synopsis: A mysterious video camera that somehow reveals secrets of the past comes into the possession of Lucy McFarland, the younger sister of  Tyler, Sinclair High School’s star quarterback. When the…

Here’s today’s FM&C Hot List. 1. Faith Ford’s role in Field of Vision hit home. I had the pleasure of participating in an online chat with the Murphy Brown/Hope & Faith star about her latest work, Field of Vision, the latest in the P&G-Walmart Family Movie Night series of TV movies set to air this…

Here’s today’s Faith, Media & Culture Hot List. And, I must say, it is a bit disturbing how many items involve organs, and not the musical kind. 1. A-Twitter over Weiner. From The Wrap: An errant Twit-pic of his bulging underwear landed Rep. Anthony Weiner in a doozy of a political scandal. Thus when the…

Here are today’s dispatches from the FM&C Hot List. 1. How not to make a pro-life movie. New Jersey state Senate candidate and ex-judge Kenneth Del Vecchio premiered his latest film The Life Zone, in association with his Justice For All Productions, on Saturday at the Hoboken Film Festival, which he co-founded and chairs. The…

Here are today’s dispatches from the FM&C Hot List: 1. The don’t call it The Left Coast for nothing. Ben Shapiro, author of Primetime Propaganda, is unleashing audio evidence of Hollywood’s blatant anti-conservative bias on YouTube. Here’s Susan Harris, the creator of Soap and The Golden Girls lamenting the “medieval minds” of people who don’t…

Yesterday this space reported (#2 on the FM&C Hot List) on the really not-so-shocking revelations found in Ben Shapiro’s new book Primetime Progaganda.  What was kinda shocking was the pride some in the industry openly took in their anti-conservative bias, a bias that sometimes apparently involves job discrimination based on political leanings. And, of course,…

Here are today’s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. 40 years since the debut of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Here’s star Malcolm McDowell talking about the milestone to The Wrap: “When it first came out, the audience sat there in stunned silence. And I’m thinking, ‘They hate it!…

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