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Worthwhile TV and DVD viewing – from the gritty documentary “Serving Life” to “Charlie Brown”
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s post-Thanksgiving dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture — including current and upcoming DVD releases. 1. Serving Life documentary serves up heart-rending yet inspirational chronicle of a prison hospice. Narrated by Forest Whitaker and originally airing on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel, this Odyssey Networks production is as compassionate as…
Does TV have a conscience? + The “B” is back + Democrats, Republicans and the movies
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media & culture. 1. Does TV have a conscience? That question was posed by Laura Zalaznick, head of NBC Universal Entertainment & Digital Networks in a speech before TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a non-profit group dedicated to what it calls “Ideas Worth Spreading.” View the video here.…
Charlie Sheen’s life really isn’t funny + A Movie of Mormon? + Do young Americans suffer from too much freedom?
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John W. Kennedy
Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Depressing comedy. From The Wrap: (Family Guy creator) Seth MacFarlane took off the gloves during”The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen” last weekend and unleashed some spectacularly nasty zingers at the actor’s expense. The comic pile on of the troubled “Two and…
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