I’m reading W. Scott Poole’s Satan in America: The Devil We Know and have just finished his discussion of Billy Sunday, the celebrity evangelist of the early 20th century. Poole sends us to George M. Marsden’s Fundamentalism and American Culture, in which he shares a warning attributed to Sunday in 1925: Our country is filled [...]
This week: Puss In Boots animates the box office as the Spanish voiced kitty tops the chart, Paranormal Activity 3 continues to scare audiences and Justin Timberlake’s In Time is out of luck. Shrek spin-off Puss In Boots (read our review) topped the box office over the weekend with an estimated million take. The Antonio Banderas voiced [...]
In Living Color, Keenen Ivory Wayans’ answer to Saturday Night Live, is getting the reboot treatment from FOX. The network intends to re-launch the series, should the two planned half-hour specials prove to be a success. The series - which made household name out of several comedians like Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier and Academy Award-winning actor Jamie [...]
This week: Travolta and Pacino’s Gotti film bites the dust; Will Smith is the million man – at least on Independence Day; Charlie Sheen is Charles Swan III and Sean Penn as well as Robert De Niro team for The Comedian. 1. Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father has been “put on hold”. The [...]
The Associated Press The Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. Hundreds of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center nurses have voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiation talks with hospital management reach an impasse. California Nurses Association spokeswoman Liz Jacobs said Friday that the majority of the… washingtonexaminer.com/news Examiner News RSS
The Associated Press The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan The U.S.-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan says militants attacked a convoy of Afghan and coalition troops in the east of the country, starting a fire… washingtonexaminer.com/news Examiner News RSS
JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has lost millions of dollars in support from former donors in Democratic strongholds and districts that he won narrowly four years ago. An Associated Press analysis found tens of thousands of supporters who gave Obama cash in the early… washingtonexaminer.com/news Examiner News RSS
Here’s one of the better parody trailers we’ve seen in quite some time. The production quality and trailer editing is good enough to trick some people into thinking this might be a trailer for an actual upcoming film (or at least a direct-to-DVD B-movie). We wouldn’t blame you if you thought this was “real,” because Shark [...]
Lesley Goldberg THR attended the milestone event where Fox chairman Dana Walden hailed the series as “truly a phenomenon.” read more Hollywood Reporter – Top Stories
Business Insider gives us yet another hideous chart documenting not just inequality, but the growing chasm between the 1 percenters and the rest of us. Yep, from 1979 through 2007, the 1-percenters were the only ones who saw their income grow. The rest of us have been headed the other way for more than 30 [...]