Here are today’s Top 10 dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n
1. NBC affiliate says no to Playboy Club<\/em>. <\/strong>From The Wrap<\/a>: 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 material that large parts of its audience could find objectionable. KSL-TV is owned by Deseret Media, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 2. “I Believe” <\/em>the Mormons deserve credit for taking a joke. <\/strong>Overall, the LDS faithful have taken the ribbing they’re getting from Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon<\/em> with a heck of a lot of good humor\u00a0and tolerance.\u00a0 I’d say the rest of us can learn a thing or two from them. Below is a clip of the song from Sunday’s Tony Award show on CBS. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tggtPHDmrR8&feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n 3. Damage control or\u00a0 sincerity? Tracy Morgan comes out in favor of gay marriage. <\/strong>From an interview with Russell Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n Russell:<\/strong> Well, I love you man.\u00a0 You have entertained us for a long time and I know you are sincerely sorry.\u00a0 I will always support you, cause we need big mouths in the gay rights movement.\u00a0 Especially this week, as we try to get gay marriage passed in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n Tracy: <\/strong>Thanks Russ for the support. I believe everyone deserves the right to be happy and marry who they want too; gay, white, black, male or female. Let me know where the rally’s at Russ. I’m there!\u2026GO KNICKS!<\/em> 4. Daily Show <\/em>host weighs in on Palin emails. <\/strong>From Mediaite<\/a>: <\/strong>Jon Stewart berated the media for looking for their Palin drug hit and taking the rest of the country on a wild goose chase through files of mundane bureaucratic files. 5. Ashton & Demi agree on email witch hunt. <\/strong>You don’t have to like Sarah Palin but common decency says enough is enough! From Mrs. Kutcher’s Twitter Acct.<\/a>:<\/p>\n 6. Cast of Doonby<\/em> case braces for criticism. <\/strong>From WorldNetDaily<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff: John Schneider stars as American drifter Sam Doonby in a daring adventure perfect for our times. Schneider and several of his “Doonby” co-stars, including Joe Estevez, Jennifer O’Neill, Robert Davi, Jenn Gotzon, Erin Way and Will Wallace, spoke to WND about what compelled them to do the film and why they think it deserves an audience…As for some of the daring parts in “Doonby,” Paul Bond<\/span><\/a> of the Hollywood Reporter was granted the scoop that Norma McCorvey makes her acting debut in this film.<\/a> McCorvey was plaintiff in the infamous Roe v. Wade case used to decriminalize abortion nationwide. She has spent much of the last 20 years trying to make reparation for her role in that Supreme Court ruling.<\/em>
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\nComment: <\/strong>“Go Knicks”<\/em>? Where the crap did that come from?
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\nGiven her part in the film, already attacks are surfacing against McCorvey by people who haven’t seen “Doonby.” So WND asked the “Doonby” actors if they are braced for attacks by critics.<\/em>
\nSchneider, for one, was upbeat. He said, “If critics attack the film, I would say ‘thank you’ because nothing sells more tickets than critics attacking a film.”<\/em>
\nWay said actors have to walk a fine line in Hollywood, but she hopes that “Doonby” will speak to her generation of 20-somethings and generations to come.<\/em>
\n“There is the whole abortion issue that is brought up,” she said. “My hope is that what is created is a very healthy dialogue about the various different sides.<\/em>
\n“I’m interested in making films that make people think,” said Way. “Maybe ‘Doonby’ will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, ‘What was that really about?’ And that excites me as an artist.”<\/em><\/p>\n