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Yesterday afternoon, a friend of mine sent me the CNN.com link flacking Tammy Faye Messner‘s “Larry King Live” appearance scheduled for 9:00 p.m. The subject line read, “This is terrifying.” For anyone who tuned in last night, or saw the clip, the sight of the terminally ill, 65 pound former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker…

You can’t walk into Starbucks without being aware that Paul McCartney’s “Memory Almost Full” has been out for awhile, and we figured it was time for Idol Chatter to weigh in on it. The reviews have been mixed. From Entertainment Weekly’s “his zestiest music in eons” to the New York Times’ “more homespun sound than…

Since I gave such glowing reviews to the first few episodes of ABC’s new summer series “Traveler”–about the two good-guy Yale graduate students, Jay and Tyler, who are framed by their “friend” Will Traveler for bombing a New York City art museum–I feel the need to at least comment briefly on the season finale, which…

Being a native New Yorker, I have always admired the NY Times as the venerable authority on current events, movies, dining, and books. Unfortunately, the unexpected and unwelcomed surprise of seeing the NYTimes post an early (late Wednesday night) book review of “Deathly Hallows” plummeted my respect for the newspaper. Having just blogged on the…

Saturday is Harry Potter day (starting at 12:01am). But you know that already. The problem is, Harry Potter day is Saturday–or, for us observant Jews, Shabbat, the Sabbath, day of rest, yadda yadda. Of course, nothing is more relaxing and Shabbat-appropriate than settling in with a good book, but the issue is getting that book.…

If you haven’t already seen this music video, check it out. It’s in response to the widely popular “I Got a Crush on Obama” video that circulated the Internet last month.

As the days crawl by for millions waiting on the release of The Final Book, there are those out there threatening to destroy our dreams of flying golden snitches and dancing chocolate frogs. Who are these evil people, worse than Death Eaters? They are the Spoilerists–those determined to “leak” parts of Deathly Hallows to fans…

In a field north of Dorchester in Dorset, Britain is a chalk drawing known as the Cerne Abbas giant–a fertility symbol with a giant phallus. As it is said in the reliable book of Wikipedia, “For hundreds of years it was local custom to erect a maypole within the earthwork about which childless couples would…

Liberal pundits in need of a boost seem to have found a surefire way to rev up the base: by bashing religion. Christopher Hitchens, suffering a rough patch for his support for the Iraq War, countered with his crowd-pleasing book, “God Is Not Great.” Now Bill Maher, the former “Politically Correct” host who has not…

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released lab results today indicating that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Chris Benoit had steroids, painkillers, and anti-anxiety drugs in his body when he killed his wife and 7-year-old son last month–before committing suicide. Although the steroid found in Benoit’s body was the hormone testosterone, the extremely high levels indicated…
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