We've Been Waiting for This Momentous Decision!
> Mom-to-be Britney Spears says she'll raise her unborn child to follow the
mystical Kabbalah faith.
Link
[http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1747742,00.html]
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Topic
Entertainment
A collection of 419 issues
The Movie Has Its Work Cut Out for It
> The tales of Narnia open up to us a certain kind of world. It is a world which
has been made--made by Someone, beautifully made. Its fabric is shot through
with glory. There is no peak, no valley, no sea or forest, but bears the weight
of this
Giving Us the Important News
Do the networks dumb us down, or do we dumb-down the networks? It's probably a
symbiotic thing:
> The real failure has been television's. According to monitoring by the Tyndall
Report, ABC News had a total of 18 minutes of the Darfur genocide in its
Kill Miniature Golf!
We didn't realize it, but the feds have passed regulations that will require
miniature golf courses to be handicap-accessible: no hills, no obstacles. The
old miniature golf courses can stay the way they are . . . until they need to
rebuild a hole, then it will presumably have to
Porners Take One on Chin
Allow us to quote from a pro-pornography site:
> Bad news from the front lines of the War on Pornography, at least where our side
is concerned: after a nine month trial in which New York-based fetish
photographer Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
attempted
Race to Bottom Continues
> Negotiations with the ABC network for a Ron Jeremy reality-TV show are
progressing, according to publicist Steve Banan, who revealed that in a
conversation he had with executives last Friday, interest was shown "in having
several ABC reality show producers take a look at the project."
Payola Redux
Today's hits are so gosh-awful bad. We figured big industry interests were
merely swaying public opinion through mass marketing (we've mentioned this in
connection with our American Idol criticism). Now, it appears much of it has
been just good ol' payola, of the Alan
Humbled NBC
NBC has expressed regret about its horrible ratings. We wonder if it'll have an
effect on their humiliating and humorless treatment of Christianity, especially
Catholicism. Link
[http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050724194809990004].
Excerpt:
> "OK, we're in fourth place ... what are
Pod Porn
The stuff is like weeds. It just grows and proliferates everywhere. Now, iPods:
> Podcasting, that baby medium, is suddenly home to a lot of adult content.
Introduced to a mainstream audience just last month, the technology–radiolike
programming for your iPod–that was once the chaste province of "
Putt-Putt
New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy piece this morning about miniature golf:
its history, its current financial problems, its Dangerfieldesque status. More
than you'd ever want to know, we're sure. But we did find this interesting: This
year, the Putt-Putt U.S. Open winner