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“All-Time Worst Christmas Movies” is not just a list, but a debate. Readers of the movie-ga-ga website Pearl and Dean recently voted “Jingle All the Way,” a 1996 flick starring the current governor of California, the worst Christmas movie ever, and you can find it on plenty of other lists as well (“Nothing more than…

Since it’s common knowledge that nothing sells a paper like a good scandal, could the same work for pageants? The latest news in the Miss USA underage-drinking/alleged drug use/inappropriate behavior kerfuffle is that Miss Teen USA–whom current Miss USA Tara Conner is said to have partied and made out with on several occassions–has been dropped…

As my fellow Idol Chatterer Paul O’Donnell recently mentioned, there has been a big marketing push by Motive Entertainment to get faith groups out to theaters to see Sylvester Stallone’s just-released “Rocky Balboa.” As a participant in a recent conference call with Stallone and a number of religious leaders, I listened in as he described…

Meant to evoke the salaciousness associated with films, TV shows, and books about the desperate lives of housewives, the latest installment of National Geographic Explorer, “Secret Lives of Jesus,” doesn’t disappoint. This exploration of alternative gospels, those not included in the canon, such as the gospels of Thomas and Judas, provides as much murder, mischief,…

In one of the most subtle yet daring movies of the year, director Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liasons,” ‘The Grifters”) examines the death of Princess Diana with a unique and thoughtful prespective in his drama “The Queen.” There’s no conspiracy theories and no move-of-the-week, soap-opera treatment of the iconic Diana here, just a razor-sharp reflection on…

Last night, the German Opera’s production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” went on in Berlin without incident, albeit two months late and with more than 100 green-clad cops on hand. The heavy security was deployed to protect the artistic freedom of the production’s director, Hans Neuenfels, who had added a controversial scene in which Mozart’s eponymous king…

The holiday season means it’s busy time here at Beliefnet, and there are a couple of new features that we think Idol Chatter readers will love. The first is Caroling with the Stars–music from some of the year’s best celebrity Christmas albums, as well as a few old favorites. It features Sarah McLachlan, Brad Paisley,…

Dimension Films is doing a little re-gifting this holiday season–and certain religious groups are responding with a loud “return to sender.” Dimension, a division of the Weinstein Company, is releasing a remake of the 1974 horror classic “Black Christmas,” a tale of sorority girls being menaced over Christmas break, considered by most afficionados to be…

His congregation meets weekly at a bar, he runs operations out of an auto body shop, and holds staff meetings at a local cafe. After some angry teen years and recovery from drug addition, Jay Bakker, son of the infamous, pioneering televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye, is now following in his father’s footsteps–sort of. He’s…
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