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Jared and Jerusha Hess: Your Typical Mormon Filmmakers

Let's out with it: Jared and Jerusha Hess, who wrote (both of them) and directed (Jared) the 2004 independent film "Napoleon Dynamite" are Mormons. Can we move on now? We cannot. The Hess family religious affiliation gets brought up in nearly every ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  Brigham Young

Hi, My Name's Jon Gosselin. (Hi, Jon!) And I'm a Fame-aholic.

Here are three reasons to suspect that you're a fame-a-holic. One, your life is a disaster. Two, even when you come to terms with your mistakes and apologize to those you've hurt, you have a microphone clipped to your lapel. Three, you have turned your ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jon Gosselin,  Shmuley Boteach,  Kevin Federline

After Near-Octomom Experience, Jon Gosselin Gets Faith

Marriage, the death of a parent, the birth of a child: we here at Beliefnet pride ourselves on knowing what brings people back to a faith they've long ignored or to discover one they never had. But Jon Gosselin has a new one on us. The New York Post is ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jon Gosselin,  New York Post,  Michael Jackson,  Shmuley Boteach,  Nadya Suleman

Catholic League President Positively Peeved at Larry David

You can't watch as much offensive television as Catholic League president Bill Donahue does without becoming a bit of a connoisseur. But a TV critic? Faced with the latest provocation from Larry David--in Sunday's episode of the "Curb Your Enthusiasm," ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Larry David

Horror Movies Not Halal?

In Indonesia, a new law stipulates that 60 percent of all movies shown in the cinemas have to be local productions, and promises further controls on content, some of which will likely reflect religious values. Meanwhile, Puteri Umno, a political party ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood

Letterman Takes the Truthy Way Out

David Letterman performed a ten-minute comedy routine last evening about how he'd been blackmailed. The punchline was that he had indeed had sex with female employees, the scuttlebutt that his blackmailer, reportedly a producer for the CBS show "48 ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Letterman,  Garrison Keillor,  Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Polanski Puzzle: One for the Ages

Our democratic forbears the Greeks believed wholeheartedly in justice. No amount of extralegal suffering or personal nobility excused the criminal from his sentence. Nor did the Greeks, to judge by the popular works of their classic tragedians, have ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anne Applebaum

The Dude, the Lord, and the Coen Brothers

"Raising Arizona"? Something about stealing a baby and Nic Cage screaming his head off. "The Big Lebowski"? My favorite! I can quote lines from memory. Can't tell you a single plot point. I've always seen this as a virtue of the movies. Tthe Coens' ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  23 Sep 2009

Jim Carroll: Death of a Catholic Boy

Solitary, spare in his poetry and his person, the writer and musician Jim Carroll, who died last week at age 60, was never easy to take as an artist. His songs were punk rants, his poems drug-scorched versions of Frank O'Hara's versified journal ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Jim Carroll,  Frank O'Hara,  Samuel Beckett

Class Conflict: 'American Idol' Adds Ellen DeGeneres

For all its success and the success of contestants like Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson, "American Idol" is still in the deepest recesses of its soul reality television, a place where Dove-bar pure DeGeneres has no business sullying herself--or ...

From PAUL O'DONNELL, BeliefNet,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: American Idol,  Ellen DeGeneres,  Carrie Underwood,  Jennifer Hudson

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