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There’s a new kind of entertainment journalism emerging these days. Or, should I say that there’s a new kind of journalistic entertainment these days? I think it’s the former. Penn Jillette–the taller, louder partner of “Penn and Teller”–has written one of the more insightful and entertaining blogs featured on CNN this week. It’s topics include…

The Washington Post Metro section has an article about a pastor who uses movies to bring spiritual lessons to his congregation. For a special series of sermons this summer, Senior Pastor Rob Seagears at Christ Chapel Mountaintop in Prince William County tied his sermons to whatever movie was top at the box office that week,…

Before you read this item, reggaeton fans, remember: what’s the use of gaining the world if you lose your soul? Hector Delgado, a pioneering practitioner of the Latin rap genre reggaeton, announced yesterday that he’s devoting himself and his musical career to God. “My way now is to serve Christ in spirit and truth,” says…

Hell hath no fury like the media scorned. And their all-out attack on the woman who could be the new feminist icon for a new generation of young women needs to stop. Or, there just need to be some other media outlets who find a way to tell the real story. There was a new…

Say what you want about Madonna, but you always know where you stand with her. For instance, whether you’re Hitler or John McCain, it doesn’t really matter to the controversial Madame Madge: if she goes on tour, you’re going in her slide show lead-in to “Like a Prayer.” In case you’re keeping track, “Like a…

Once every four years, like the Olympics, the National Presidential Nominating Conventions are called to order. The politics is a matter for another blog, but I’d like to comment on the inspiration, entertainment, and excellence that is making this week’s convention far more relevant as prime-time TV than I expected it would. I’m inspired by…

Two movies featuring major stars sharing the silver screen are coming up soon, and I’m looking forward to both of them. I may even need to make it a double feature, since they’re opening on the same night! A movie pairing that’s been 34 years in the making will finally match two of the biggest…

It’s happened before. In fact, it happened to J.K. Rowling a couple of days before the release of Book Seven in Harry Potter–someone posted the entire manuscript illegally on the Internet. But this time around it’s a bit more painful for the author. The author is Stephenie Meyer, and the manuscript that was leaked is…

Not long ago we blogged that Andres Serrano, the artist whose photograph, “P–s Christ”–a hazy shot of a crucifix dunked in the artist’s urine–raised Cain with social conservatives back in 1989, was planning a new exhibit at a Manhattan gallery, this time featuring photos of fecal matter. A recent article in the New York Post…

Thanks to my husband’s parents who have come to live with us for several months (really, it is a good thing!), we were able to see a movie this weekend (which we haven’t done so in more than a year–since my third child was born last fall). He pushed for “Tropic Thunder,” but I won…
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