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By Amy & Nancy Harrington, the Pop Culture PassionistasThis week celebrities take off their make-up, dance for animal rights, overcome illness, open a shelter, and speak out about school budget cuts. Here are our favorite inspirational pop culture moments of the week.Jessica Simpson Inspires Us to Love OurselvesVery few actresses are brave enough to pose…

Should J.K. Rowling write another Harry Potter book?

A young man’s appearance on the Taiwanese talent show “Super Star Ave.” has the Internet abuzz. His performance of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” is shockingly weird/awesome.Check it out:

Introducing Feminist Theologian Barbie. Reverend Barbie. Pastor Barbie! I literally cannot get over this: Barbie is getting ordained in the Episcopalian Church. I mean, I know she’s been president and entered into a whole host of other professions, but a minister Barbie? A woman minister Barbie? Now we’re talking. She even went to divinity school!…

The Duggar family’s newest addition, Josie Brooklyn–baby 19–was finally released from the hospital yesterday after she was prematurely born in December. As you read on Idol Chatter a few months ago, Michelle Duggar, who along with husband Jim Bob star on TLC’s reality TV show “19 Kids and Counting,” delivered Josie via an emergency C-section.…

Here are a few excellent movies that celebrate poetry and poets.

Such was the line from “Hoosiers,” the best basketball movie ever made, and the line repeated all over the Butler University Campus. It was one of the Top Five memories from one of the most inspirational NCAA Basketball Finals we’ve seen in a long, long time. For all the hoopla that is “March Madness,” for…

Tiger Woods faced the world through 206 media representatives, multiple television cameras and a host of digital cameras. As anticipated, the questions ranged from his personal life to golf to his personal life to Augusta to his personal life to his competitiveness to his personal life to his chances of winning the first of golf’s…

Last weekend I was excited to see ‘Saving Grace,’ TNT’s cop show starring Holly Hunter, back in my DVR queue–it meant a new season was beginning. The gritty stories and characters appealed to me from the very start, much to my initial surprise–I am not exactly the target audience for a show about a woman…

Big names and big effects prove to be less than epic in this unnecessary and dispensable remake.
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