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HBO’s ‘True Blood’: It’s All About Being Saved This Season
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Donna Freitas
Finding salvation, redemption, forgiveness–HBO’s second season of the vampire-centric “True Blood” seems to be dripping with these themes in its premiere episode last Sunday, “Nothing But the Blood.” Of course, the forms of salvation, etc., may vary. Jason Stackhouse, Sookie’s brother and resident philanderer of Bon Temps, is reforming his ways and he’s turned to…
’16 and Pregnant’ is Important Television
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Ellen Leventry
When news that Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at 16 first broke back in December 2007, I suggested that Ms. Spears turn it into a teaching moment and film a reality spotlighting the hardships of being a teen mother. Well, it’s been a long gestation period, but MTV has taken the idea and run with…
Need a Hasid for Your Film? Call Rabbi Elli – He’ll Hook You Up
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Esther Kustanowitz
If you’re setting a film or television program in New York City, and are casting background actors, you’re probably going to need a few good men…specifically, Hasidic Jews. These ultra-Orthodox Jews are part of the NY landscape, and–from television shows like “Law & Order” to movies like “Ghostbusters” and “Men In Black,” just to name…
Speidi, a Baldwin, and Kate: This Week’s Celebrity Christians on the D-List
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Kris Rasmussen
Talk shows as well as the blogosphere were a flutter yesterday with several juicy D-list Christians on reality shows doing some pretty stupid stuff. I don’t relish in their individual shortcomings, as much as I am encouraged that maybe this is the teensiest beginning of the fall of reality TV as a genre. Heidi Montag…
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