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For a 40-something mom with a grown daughter, I have to confess that the whole tween scene is a bit too cutesy for my tastes, and I’ve never been a big fan of throwing kids into the limelight; we’ve seen what that kind of pressure can do (can anyone say Spears?). But with the tidal…

With the ongoing writers’ strike depriving me of my favorite television shows, I have finally joined the masses in checking out the vast material on YouTube and similar sites to find some entertainment. Idol Chatter has already covered the irreverent web series “Mr. Deity” , but I have come across a new satirical web series…

Or more accurately, it’s the recession, stupid. Just as the major presidential candidates have rewritten their scripts from “change agent” to “steady at the helm,” the Oscar nominations, announced this morning, are asking us to take a second look at dark films we once dismissed but seem right on-message. Each of the best picture nominees…

No Jack Nicholson? No Angelina Jolle? No Denzel Washington, for either of his movies? And, possibly no Awards ceremony? What is the entertainment world coming to? Maybe, at least for one year, Oscar is growing up. Welcome to the intrigue and interesting-ness of the 80th Annual Academy Awards, to be held February 24 at The…

With only one original episode left, it might be a little late for me to say that “Friday Night Lights” has finally returned to at least a semblence of its former greatness. Now that Landry/Tyra murder storyline is finally over, the show has slowly attempted to return what made it great to begin with: stories…

Some friends visiting the other night brought an interesting show & tell along: saint figurines they’d bought from gumball machines! For a mere 50 cents you could have your very own Virgin of Guadalupe, St. Anthony, or even JPII (John Paul II)! Called “Santos,” apparently this unique twist on the more traditional candy/prize gumball dispensing…

Finally, a fun (if formulaic) romantic comedy hits theaters after what seems an awfully long dry spell. It’s no shock that Katherine Heigl (recently, a real life blushing bride herself) lights up the screen and the humor in “27 Dresses” as Jane–“always the bridesmaid, never the bride”–the maid of honor of choice for what seems…

“Britney’s Shocking Decision” tempts the cover of OK! Weekly‘s cover this week. Apparently, we dear readers are supposed to be stunned – absolutely stunned — by the fact that Brit-Brit is trying to get pregnant again so that she can have a little one that the courts haven’t yet taken away. Raise your hand if…

The new Andrew Morton book about Tom Cruise has mostly gotten attention for its controversial claims about Cruise’s Scientologist beliefs. However, the book also sheds light on the beliefs of Cruise’s ex-wife, actress Nicole Kidman. The book alleges that when the Church of Scientology first courted the couple, they sensed that Kidman would be “a…

Unlike some of my colleagues here at Beliefnet, I am not a huge music person. I’ve got my favorite tunes and artists, but I don’t live and breathe music, there isn’t a soundtrack to my life constantly playing at home or in the office or in between. And yet, occasionally, I come face to face…
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