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…

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, 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…

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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