David and Victoria Beckham are already not your typical L.A. couple. He’s insanely hot and talented and famous. She’s insanely skinny and talented (at being skinny and posh) and famous. (OK, so maybe that’s a bit typical. But wait, there’s another point.) They defected from England to the States, the opposite of the American celebrity…

France is no stranger to racial tension–just over two years ago the country was rife with riots as young Arabs and North African Muslims protested the death of two immigrant youths, opening up old wounds of racial, economic, and social discontent. Muslim French women who want to wear the hijab often face bans in schools.…

If many Americans actually pull up Charlton Heston’s face-wigged visage when they think of Moses, it’s worth noting that Time magazine considered Heston “ludicrously miscast” as the biblical patriach in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic “Ten Commandments.” The hammy, melodramatic style of Hollywood’s big-budget midcentury heyday obscures the fact that Heston, who starred in some of…

Oh, celebrities! What won’t they do for beauty and youth? If they’re willing to inject their faces with botulism or get lipo’d during a lunch hour or wear red strings/study Kabbalah, why should anything as natural as a good leeching make our skin crawl?Because it’s gross. And hearing Demi Moore talk about her recent leeching…

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