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She shares her name with the holy mother, but Marie Osmond’s estranged husband is claiming that the Mormon entertainer and entrepreneur doesn’t share Mary’s maternal proclivities. Even though Osmond and her husband of 20 years, music producer Brian Blosil, issued a joint statement saying that “Our marriage has always been a faithful one, and neither…

At times of national crisis like this, it must be hard to be a professional comedian, especially one with a nightly show and millions of viewers. Luckily, Jay Leno is a class act who performed a courageous act at the start of last night’s show. He came out on stage and did what every smart…

If you haven’t already seen it, make time for “The Hoax,” a riveting film about Clifford Irving that’s based on a true story. In 1971 Irving almost fooled publishing house McGraw-Hill into putting out his utterly fictionalized “authorized autobiography” of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. Watching Mr. Irving conceive the idea of the fake autobiography and…

Some weeks back Idol Chatter brought you the flap over Daniel Radcliffe’s appearance in “Equus” on the London stage. Some British parents were aghast that the 17-year-old child star of the Harry Potter movie series would bare all (as his role required) and thereby risk scandalizing young Potterphiles. But at least one group of Radcliffe…

When I worked in Residence Life at Georgetown University, one of the resident assitants (R.A.’s) on my staff was a young, beautiful Muslim woman who always wore a head scarf and whose clothes extended to her wrists and ankles. Her fashion sense was stunning, and each time I saw her I was amazed by her…

We’ve all waxed poetic about Imus, his apology and his punishment, but now it’s time to get down to business. This isn’t about the shocking nature of Imus’s comment–whether it is racist or sexist–it is about morality. During one of his apologies, Imus said he knew the phrase he used came from the black community.…

Don Imus was fired–and I think it’s a travesty. I don’t have the same point of view as my esteemed Idol Chatter colleague Nicole Symmonds, who wrote that “you couldn’t have said a more racially-charged comment,” and “the apology is not accepted.” Writing before Mr. Imus was fired, she called for his show to be…

The question, to me, is not whether Imus should have been fired for his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players; it’s why he was fired for these comments in particular–or rather, why he, and countless other shock-jocks like him, weren’t fired sooner for any number of other immoral comments and “jokes.” Let’s be clear:…

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue … something Hindu? Liz Hurley, the one-time face of Estee Lauder, and Arun Nayar’s Hindu wedding has already stirred controversy amongst Hindu traditionalists for being performed after the London-based Christian rite, but one Indian man is taking it one step further. According to Access Hollywood, via MSNBC.com,…

Author Kurt Vonnegut, the man best known for writing the dark, satirical novel “Slaughterhouse Five” died Wednesday at 84, leaving behind a literary legacy founded on a restless angst in search of truth. His novels and essays never stopped attacking the flaws and hypocrisies of societal institutions in all shapes and forms. His works always,…
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