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When you're James Cameron, director of Avatar, how do you spend your birthday? If you said, "submerging yourself beneath a Russian lake," you're correct!

By Amy & Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas This week celebrities a rapper got swabbed, some “Real Housewives” showed they have heart, and a talk show legend made some big donations (posthumously). Here are this week’s most inspirational pop culture moments. 50 Cent Steps Up To Donate Bone Marrow 50 Cent might have a reputation…

Neal McDonough is developing a new series.

Robert Duvall discusses his latest film and how it examines faith.

The Teen Choice Awards were last night, and perhaps unsurprisingly so, it was pretty much all vampires, all the time, getting the love from teen voters. Most especially, everything Twilight related (Twilight garnered 12 awards!), but also ‘Vampire Diaries’ too. The New York Times reports in their Arts brief, “Vampires Rule at Teen Choice Awards”:…

Patricia Neal died Sunday after a long illness.

Books about happiness, talk of our happiness quotient and level and how to be happy is all the rage these days. And what, with the film adaptation of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ coming out on Friday, featuring Elizabeth Gilbert’s fantasy road to happiness via divorce plus Italy, India, and Indonesia (basically: she lives every woman’s private…

By Amy & Nancy Harrington, Pop Culture Passionistas This week celebrities Tweeted to save lives, Superman stopped a foreclosure, and a TV funnyman battled a serious case. Here are this week’s most inspirational pop culture moments. Stars Twitter to Save Animals’ Lives Many celebrities are famously known for their love of animals–Mary Tyler Moore, Betty…

By Zoe Ferraris, author of the new novel “City of Veils” I sometimes think Islam is all about the rules. When I lived in Saudi Arabia, I discovered that there are rules for everything. How to tuck your feet when you pray. How to dispose of old bread. How to trim your eyebrows. At times…

The new stars of our pop culture are not coming from the typical places, whether that be movies, music, television or somewhere else. No, they’re coming from another place and being talked about everywhere from the tabloids to the tube to the water cooler to the churches. They are the Billionaires. “To whom much is…
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