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POPSOut in Hollywood: Starring Roles are Rare “The industry is persuaded that being known as gay will undermine your credibility both as romantic lead or an action star,” said Larry Gross, director of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and author of a book on media portrayals of gays and lesbians. “They don’t test it,” he said. “We’re waiting for the Jackie Robinson moment when someone tests that assumption and discovers it’s not true.”
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POPSProtecting Them Protects Us "This case is about our unequivocal treaty obligation to comply with an International Court of Justice judgment and the Vienna Convention, which has allowed diplomats such as myself to save hundreds if not thousands of American lives. Were the tables turned -- American citizens arrested abroad and denied consular access, with an ICJ judgment requiring review of those cases for prejudice, and another nation refusing to comply -- our leaders would rightly demand that compliance be forthcoming."
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POPSWhere the Women Aren't black filmmaker Tyler Perry has built his success partly on the truth that when audiences look up at the screen what they want to see are faces much like their own. In 2008, when a white woman and a black man are running for president and attracting unprecedented numbers of voters partly because they are giving a face to the wildly under-represented, you might think that Hollywood would get a clue. Nah.
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POPSJewish Humor Q: Is one permitted to fly on the Sabbath A:Yes, as long as the seatbelt remains fastened,it's considered that you are not riding, you are wearing the plane I've been critical of the State of Israel, but remember some of the greatest comedians are Jewish. . While there is humor, it can have a reality that can't be denied. If you're going to be funny, and use your own failings as material, you're never going to be short of a joke. People often laugh, because a comedian can cay something their flaws in a funny way, that they are afraid to say about themselves.
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POPSThe American Religious Crisis It startles me how quickly these stories are coming. With news like this, it is impossible to not further explore the conflict between modern society and fundamentalist faith. I believe that the inevitable progress of society, and the fundamentalist rejection of modernism and defiance of that progress can only end in some major sort of spiritual collapse. The fact that, in these times, so many feel so violently uncomfortable with progress and the future strikes me as the defining conflict of our times. What is bring about such a large scale rejection of modernity? Why is progress so often equated with sin? The pat answers that we always offer somehow ring hollow. They haven't been able to reconcile this conflict, and neither sides seems to address the humanity of the other. If we continue down this divisive path, there is no future for spirituality in America.
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POPSShakespeare's Worst Play - Titus Andronicus I read this play in high school and I can vouch for McLemee's assertion that it is nihilistic and gory, with little to redeem to itself. But I'll take it over any of Shake's so-called "comedies". Yet I suspect that there is a certain moral ambiguity about experiencing Titus Andronicus as containing moral ambiguity. To put it another way: It may well be that this play contains all the moral complexity of a scenario in the world of professional wrestling.
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