Yesterday it was made to sound as though after weeks of stalking Pope Francis, “Noah” star Russell Crowe and director Darren Aronosfsky had wrangled some sort of awkward meeting with the Holy Father. Apparently, that wasn’t true. … there was no meeting: Conflicting reports about the meeting began circulating, but Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico […]
On his “Between Two Ferns” talk show on FunnyOrDie.com, actor Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover”) hammers his celebrity guests with insults, creating an awkward, often crude satirical scene unlike any other. Galifianakis plays a character, and his guests play along. But when President Barack Obama is on the show, the actor surely pulls his punches for […]
She may be the queen of the Oscars, with a staggering 18 nominations and three wins over a 35-year period, but Meryl Streep might be surprised to hear that she is also unsurpassed when it comes to being mentioned in acceptance speeches at the ceremony. A new survey by Slate magazine suggests that winners over […]
Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart.com My colleague Lisa De Pasquale has written a lively Bridget Jones-style memoir of dating in the conservative movement, Finding Mr. Righteous. …Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, one of many illustrious names to blurb De Pasquale’s book, writes that it is “[a] true Christian story, disguised as racy Chick Lit.” It’s more than […]
Initial screenings of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” has revealed that Christians were not entirely on board with the “Black Swan” director’s depiction of the famous Genesis character. After “Noah” superseded its initial $125 million budget and became the costliest movie that Aronofsky had ever made, Paramount Pictures forced the director – against his will – to […]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” We don’t have her any more after her death Monday night, and the truth is we are not all right. Shirley Temple and her iconic screen presence were a tribute to an America that believed in […]
The 2014 Winter Olympics officially began with an extravagant opening ceremony in Sochi, Russia, today (Feb. 7), and even NASA has embraced the spirit of the games with striking new satellite views of Olympic sites from orbit. The newly released photos of Sochi Winter Olympics venues from space were captured by a NASA instrument on the Earth-watching […]
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s daughter Dylan Farrow made public a personal account of a harrowing story this week. In a letter to the New York Times, she detailed how Allen repeatedly molested her at age 7, and asked actors who worked with him to speak out. Farrow’s call has received radio silence from Hollywood. […]
Two hit movies nominated this year for Academy Awards have something in common: Both films mock the con game that passes for the modern American dream and both uphold the transcendent importance of the emotional ties that bind members of an immediate family. The fact that such films could be made in Hollywood gives a […]
Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times “Just ahead of the 2014 Super Bowl, 50 percent of sports fans see some aspect of the supernatural at play in sports, meaning they either pray to God to help their team, have thought their team was cursed at some point in time, or believe that God plays a role […]
