Entertainment

America's love-affair with the show is a bit much, but surely this guy is going a little too far? > A Russian lawyer plans to take his case against The Simpsons to the European Court of Human Rights. > It comes after a Moscow Court rejected Igor

Underwater hockey is spreading [http://www.wral.com/apstrangenews/5411464/detail.html]. It is played in 20 U.S. states and 17 countries.

The Catholic Church continues to stand up for itself: > A Brazilian singer who promoted the use of condoms in an anti-AIDS campaign has been dropped from the lineup of next month's Christmas concert at the Vatican, organizers said Friday. . . . > The popular singer participated in a

The sane folk at Southern Appeal [http://southernappeal.blogspot.com/2005/11/holiday-movie-mini-review-i-saw-walk.html] plug Walk the Line, causing me to wail and gnash my teeth again at my rural outpost and its four isolated theater screens: > I saw Walk the Line tonight

In time for Walk the Line: > Johnny Cash's tour bus is up for sale on auction site eBay. > The singer, who died in September 2003, apparently used the vehicle while on tour in the 1980s. . . . > The current highest bid is $35,000 (£20,500)

> The era of moviegoing as a mass audience ritual is slowly but inexorably drawing to a close, eroded by many of the same forces that have eviscerated the music industry, decimated network TV and, yes, are clobbering the newspaper business. Put simply, an explosion of new technology – the Internet,

The New York Times was making a different point, but in the process it provided pretty good evidence that Hollywood and TV have been bombing our culture with homosexuality [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/movies/20jame.html]: > There has been an explosion of Oscar-baiting performances in

I don't know this blogger [http://oooohdark30.blogspot.com/2005/11/tom-cruise-needs-to-come-out-of-closet.html] and I didn't see South Park last night, but both sound pretty good (the poor grammar and spelling notwithstanding): > [F]or those of you who

> Last spring, Ralph Frammolino began regularly covering the pornography industry for the [Los Angeles Times]. He says the porn trade is too big an economic engine to be ignored [http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/142005a.asp].