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We here at Idol Chatter been having so much fun with our top ten movie lists this summer, that we decided to go one step further and start a little trivia game. Actually, we borrowed the idea from our new resident Christian music expert Joanne Brokaw over at Gospel Soundcheck who has been running music…

We were Staycationers this past July 4 weekend, and tried something we hadn’t in a long time: we went looking for TV options, flipping the remote a little more than we’d care to and being mostly disappointed with what we found. We have a ton of cable channels in our home, and I notice there’s…

The devil has a place in American baseball lore, thanks to the classic 1955 musical “Damn Yankees,” in which a beleaguered baseball fan named Joe Boyd sells his soul to Satan in return for the batting chops that help his beloved Washington Senators finally vanquish the Yankees. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work. The devil never…

Last week the New York Times Style section did an interesting feature/exposé on the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health–a popular New Age retreat destination in Massachusetts that attracts “30,000 guests a year” and “bills itself as the biggest retreat center in the country, offering 700 workshops and seminars annually”–and its role in picking the…

I finally watched episode one of “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” the new, much advertised and talked about television series that premiered on ABC Family last Tuesday. I know my fellow Idol Chatter blogger Kris is rather outraged about the proliferation of Christian stereotypes that raced across the screen as the show was…

As Idol Chatter reported last week, Madonna and her husband Guy Richie have been undergoing Kabbalah marriage counseling in New York. Now, it seems there’s more to the story. Rumors have been swirling that Madonna is having an affair with Yankees star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, and that was what prompted the need for marriage counseling.…

I ran a preview of “The Secret Life of an American Teenager” last week because I was hopeful it could be an intelligent new summer series. It seems others were equally optimistic because the show debuted to the highest ratings ever for a premiere on ABC Family Channel. Which puts this show in the negative…

Recently the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano officially quashed rumors that Pope Benedict XVI’s red shoes are not Prada (an urban legend Idol Chatter’s own Donna Freitas debunked back in April). “Such rumors are inconsistent with the simple and somber man who, on the day of his election to the papacy, showed to the faithful gathered…

Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith recently announced plans to open a private school in Calabasas, California, just outside of Los Angeles. New Village Academy is scheduled to open in September, and while the couple may have funded the school for philanthropic purposes, their plan has backfired. Many of the school’s teachers are…

“Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden, is now chasing Nazis–or at least planning to helm a remake (or reinterpretation) of an Israeli film about Nazi hunting, called “The Debt.” The Miramax Films project is based on the 2007 Israeli feature “HaHov,” which follows a trio of 1960s Israeli intelligence agents who pursue an elusive Nazi…
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