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“A Film Unfinished” Holocaust documentary retains an “R” rating
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John W. Kennedy
Citing “disturbing images of Holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity,” the appeals board of the movie industry’s Classification and Rating Administration has rejected a plea to reconsider its decision to slap an “R” rating on the Holocaust documentary A Film Unfinished. The plea was made by Oscilloscope Laboratories, the movie’s distributor, on the basis that the…
The cultural battle over Prop 8 and same-sex marriage will go on — but genuine compromise may be possible
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John W. Kennedy
As Hollywood celebrates the court-ordered death of California’s Proposition 8 (in which voters rejected a previous court ruling legalizing gay marriage), it’s worth noting that Prop 8 (dubbed “Prop Hate” by comedian Margaret Cho) isn’t actually dead. It will be appealed and, ultimately (no matter which side wins the appeal), appealed again to the Supreme…
Anne Rice and the idea of following Christ but not Christians
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John W. Kennedy
Anne Rice, the one-time self-described atheist who rose to fame writing gothic novels (The Vampire Chronicles) but in 1998 returned to the Catholic Church of her youth and went on to devote herself to writing books that expressed her rediscovered faith (i.e. the Christ the Lord books), caused a stir last week by announcing on…
More on Oliver Stone and Progressive anti-Semitism
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John W. Kennedy
Yesterday I posted a blog regarding Oliver Stone’s apology for anti-Semitic comments made to the Sunday Times of London in which I expressed surprise that anyone would be surprised to find anti-Semitism on the left. I suggested that the left-leaning media has been, if anything, a bit hostile toward the State of Israel and, relatively,…
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