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The big, fat extra-special 1,000th issue of Rolling Stone just arrived at the door complete with a psychedelic, 3-D cover featuring just about every rocker imaginable. The theme of this special edition is a cover art retrospective (which could double as an early Annie Leibovitz gallery showing) and it’s a must-flip-through if you happen to…

Celebrity gossip site Perezhilton.com reports that Britney Spears has put the kibosh on her study of Kabbalah. Introduced to the belief system by Madonna, it seems that motherhood is trumping mysticism, as Spears explained in the “Love B: Stream of consciousness” section of britneyspears.com, “I no longer study Kabbalah, my baby is my religion.” While…

Preparations for this Friday’s opening of “The Da Vinci Code” are reaching fever pitch–from eager moviegoers as well as Christians who are angry about the story and its pervasiveness in pop culture. So this begs the question–how should those opposed to “Da Vinci” protest or demonstrate their views? This New York Times article explains how…

A few months ago I blogged–not-so flatteringly, I might add–about one novel response to the upcoming movie release of “The Da Vinci Code.” Barbara Nicolosi–a former nun who’s now the executive director of Act One, a program that trains Christians to work in Hollywood–had suggested that Christians refrain from boycotting the movie, and instead “othercott”…

It seems that “7th Heaven” may have nine lives. CNN reported today that the series, which had its much-touted finale last week, may return for an 11th season on the new CW network this fall. Fans of the show will, no doubt, rejoice if the deal goes through. And Catherine Hicks, the show’s matriarch, will…

Is the mega-bestseller “The Da Vinci Code,” a work of fiction, actually influencing the religious beliefs of its readers? Yes, says a new survey released today by pollster George Barna–but not in the way many traditional Christians fear. The poll found that instead of changing readers’ religious beliefs, the book served to confirm the beliefs…

“The West Wing” will go down in television history as one of the most wonderfully relevant shows and enduring DVD buys, even if its series finale was, dang it, such a bore. I enjoyed reading Michael Kress’s blog piece about the series, and appreciated the reminder that the finale was coming up. What a shame…

This week’s Boston Legal again took several shots at the George W. Bush administration, especially on the topics of abortion, womens’ rights, Bush’s random out-of-step-ness with society, and our alleged patriarchal approach to foreign policy. It got me–a Bush-loving Republican–to thinking about two things: 1. This show doesn’t even veil its attempts at taking direct…

We knew this would happen. Every presidency must end. This Sunday, we’ll bid adieu to President Josiah Bartlett, his family, and the aides who worked tirelessly for him these past seven years on “The West Wing.” “The West Wing” was more than just a wonky show that occasionally veered into the absurd–like the president’s daughter…

Rick Ross–head of the Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements–tracks benign as well as malignant para-religious groups on his site Cult News. Ross reports that the influence of nontraditional religion has been fading in Hollywood of late, and asks whether Kabbalah and Scientology don’t need new, younger…
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