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A Quarter Century of AIDS
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Amidst the coverage of this week’s 25th anniversary of the identification of the disease that’s come to be known as AIDS, Idol Chatter would like to take a moment to remember the pop-culture figures who’ve been lost to the disease. As the epidemic has moved on to devastate poverty-stricken African American communities and horrifyingly large…
“Guru Pitka,” International Man of Enlightenment
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kris rasmussen
What if a spiritual leader such as Deepak Chopra was channeled through the completely politically incorrect energy of a very famous comedian? You’d get a character named Guru Pitka, and Paramount Pictures would want to make a feature film about him. Guru Pitka is the invention of “Austin Powers” star Mike Myers, who has taken…
God Is the Word, Word, Word
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jmcgee
Intrigued is how I would describe myself the moment I learned that a “hip hop mass” would be held at St. Paul’s Chapel, an Episcopal church in the heart of Manhattan’s financial district. How can liturgical Protestantism and hip hop music coexist? What is the driving force behind such an ostensibly bizarre combination of ceremony…
A Balanced Portrayal of Opus Dei–If You Can Stay Awake
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charlotte allen
If you can sit through the 149-minute movie version of “The Da Vinci Code” directed by Ron Howard, you can certainly sit through “Opus Dei and the Da Vinci Code,” a 50-minute BBC documentary directed by Jeremy Jeffs, which aired last night on The Hallmark Channel and will be re-aired next Sunday. The main problem…
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