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Listening to pop/gospel artist Nicole C. Mullen’s powerful vocal gymnastics on songs like “Call on Jesus” and “Redeemer” has long been an antidote for lifting my spirits whenever I’m feeling a little blue. So it was difficult not to feel some significant disappointment at first when I listened to her latest effort, “Sharecropper’s Seed, Volume…

“We’re always looking for a seder. This year we [she and husband Matthew Broderick] drove four and a half hours to go to a Rosh Hashanah dinner.”— Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, quoted in “Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish,” by Abigail Pogrebin I was recently rereading an interview with Sarah Jessica Parker…

Back when Kristin Chenoweth had her own television show, she told Beliefnet that she hoped the show would “show the human face of Christianity.” Nowadays, it’s more than the face of Christianity that Chenoweth is showing. She appears nude (tastefully) in the May issue of the beauty magazine Allure, in a portfolio of actresses who…

From Sherlock Holmes to “Dragnet” to “CSI,” we like to see a killer get his, in the form of comeuppance when the detective solves the crime, or in the judge’s sentence, or best of all when he (or she) comes to some deservedly untimely end. But what’s the opposite of typical justice? You’ll see it…

I never had the chance to see “The Last King of Scotland,” which tells the tale of psychotic Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, when it first came out. I was expecting a very different movie than the one I saw when I watched it on DVD this week. The movie is not so much a look…

Pairs of hands all over the country were clasped in prayer last night. “Thank you, God,” said thousands of mouths, exalting their voices to the divine. Were they thanking Him for good weather, for providing food, or for curing a sick loved one? No. They were thanking Him for finally getting Sanjaya off of “American…

Turns out that Desmond David Hume on “Lost,” the character most memorable for calling everybody “brothuuh,” (heavy on the accent), is actually an ex-brother! (well, ex-monk, but close enough). This shocking revelation was revealed on last night’s episode, “Catch-22.” Here’s the story: Desmond convinces Hurley, Charlie, and Jin to trek with him through the jungle…

For the first time in the current season of Fox’s “24,” the show finally became interesting again (at least for me) because it returned to the kind of ethical and moral drama that had made it great for its first five seasons. Through most of this season the main plot device has been the attempt…

Like the Toyota Prius, “Drive,” the FOX network’s latest offering is a hybrid. The show is essentially about a group of Americans who are participating in a secret, illegal cross-country road race. It’s one-third conventional car chase show (think “Starsky & Hutch,” and “ChiPs”) and two-thirds thriller with mysterious characters show (think “Lost“). Throw in…

Lately Sean Penn is known more for his provocative political stances, writing about “human shields” in Iraq and documenting a diplomatic visit to Iran, than his provocative roles in films such as “Mystic River” and “Dead Man Walking.” That’s why local Oahu residents are angered over the controversy-creating activist-actor’s recent vacation at Oahu’s Turtle Bay…
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