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2015-03-10T17:16:26-08:00

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Fan Turns Her Skin Into a Temple to Rihanna

Last updated on: March 10, 2015 at 5:16 pm By Kate O'Hare

From Buzzfeed, which has several pictures, a 23-year-old British woman has given over her body to her icon, singer Rihanna (above): [Sarah] Ridge has seven tattoos of Rihanna’s face on her body, as well as imitations of the singer’s own famous tattoos. I’d like to make fun of her, but considering the permanence of what she’s done — and the staggering level of idolatry (one tattoo covers her entire back) — I’m more inclined to pity. Whatever you think about tattoos, to endure... Read more

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2015-03-10T16:32:57-08:00

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‘Top Gear’: What Do You Do With a Problem Like Jeremy Clarkson?

Last updated on: March 10, 2015 at 4:32 pm By Kate O'Hare

I will admit to being rather entertained at hearing that Jeremy Clarkson, longtime host of BBC 2’s venerable “Top Gear” (which airs here on Monday nights on BBC America) punched Piers Morgan in 2004. He stood in as proxy for all the times I’d love to have popped Morgan in the nose during his CNN tenure (although I quite liked him during “America’s Got Talent” and stopped watching when he left). Here’s Clarkson’s explanation: Truth be told, I’ve never punched anyone —... Read more

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2015-03-09T22:28:02-08:00

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Julian Fellowes on ‘Downton Abbey,’ Politics, ‘Wolf Hall’ and More

Last updated on: March 9, 2015 at 10:28 pm By Kate O'Hare

In this charming new interview with British student Oscar Pearson — half, with Philip Chidell, of ChatLife and ChatPolitics — “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes talks about a number of subjects, from writing to “Downton” to theater (he’s not a fan) to conservative politics (he’s in the House of Lords). Fellowes is a Catholic — though perhaps not a perfectly orthodox one, as I outlined previously over at CatholicVote (and he says in this interview he voted for same-sex “marriage”)... Read more

2015-03-09T19:10:58-08:00

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Why ‘Elementary’ Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe Won’t Read Your Script

Last updated on: March 9, 2015 at 7:10 pm By Kate O'Hare

It doesn’t take the mind of Sherlock Holmes to figure out why an established writer doesn’t want to read an amateur writer’s unsolicited treatment or script, just a working knowledge of how show business functions. Almost without exception, unless that writer is an immediate blood relative or a very close personal friend — and maybe not even then — they won’t even glance at it. A large reason for that is because of our litigious society. Anyone who follows entertainment... Read more

2015-03-09T09:35:18-08:00

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HBO Partners With Apple for HBO NOW Launch (Video)

Last updated on: March 9, 2015 at 9:35 am By Kate O'Hare

As part of the ongoing disruption in the TV industry, pay-cable HBO is helping fans cut the cable-TV cord — but not necessarily the cable-broadband cord — while not giving up such high-quality, morally edifying fare as “Girls” and “Looking.” OK, they’ll also get “Silicon Valley” and “Game of Thrones,” along with such classics as “The Wire” and “Deadwood,” but this is just the first rumblings of a coming earthquake offering viewers more control over what they see and where, and... Read more

2015-03-08T16:49:34-08:00

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Is Science Making the Case for God? (Video)

Last updated on: March 8, 2015 at 4:49 pm By Kate O'Hare

The jury’s still out on scientific proof for the existence of a Supreme Being, but it’s a question that certainly resonates with the reading public — even the highly educated, entrepreneurial types that peruse The Wall Street Journal. According to the Facebook page of radio host Dennis Prager, an article by American Christian author, speaker and TV host Eric Metaxas, called “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God,” published last Christmas Day, has just hit 400,000 Facebook likes. Prager also says... Read more

2015-03-08T09:30:41-08:00

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Jihadi John and Our Shared Humanity of Blame

Last updated on: March 8, 2015 at 9:30 am By Kate O'Hare

I’ve always held that when you put people on a pedestal and act as if they are above ordinary failings, you strip them of their humanity as effectively as if you ground them under your heel. As Catholics, we know that there is no such thing as collective guilt or collective absolution — we all stand before our Creator to answer for what we’ve done, or not done, in our own lives. But in the media — whether it’s news or... Read more

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2015-03-08T08:01:26-08:00

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Conan in Cuba — The Inescapable Politics of Comedy

Last updated on: March 8, 2015 at 8:01 am By Kate O'Hare

There was a lot of controversy at the end of 2014 when Cuban-Americans heard how Pope Francis was involved in brokering a new deal between the U.S. and Cuba, which also secured the release of American citizen Alan Gross from Cuban custody. There are strong feelings over the Communist nation 90 miles off America’s shores, and the announcement opened up old wounds and, in some cases, pitted Cuban-American Catholics against the pope. These days, though, we seem to filter a lot... Read more

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2015-03-07T21:19:08-08:00

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CNN’s ‘Finding Jesus’ Co-Author on Messiah, Not Myth

Last updated on: March 7, 2015 at 9:19 pm By Kate O'Hare

While not every Christian historical artifact examined in the ongoing CNN series “Finding Jesus,” airing Sundays, is the real thing, author and Catholic convert David Gibson has no doubt about the Faith’s central figure. Gibson co-wrote the book that inspired the series, “Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery,” with Michael McKinley. In conversation on Thursday, he described his mother as “a Billy Graham Evangelical,” and said, “As my mom says, ‘You can only find Jesus in the Bible.’ I say, ‘Yeah, Mom,... Read more

2015-03-07T19:31:56-08:00

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Catholic Ed Burns on the ‘Twelve Best Days’

Last updated on: March 7, 2015 at 7:31 pm By Kate O'Hare

From Saturday’s (March 7) The Hollywood Reporter, Ed Burns, born into a large Irish-Catholic family in Queens, N.Y. — and married to fellow Catholic and model Christy Turlington — talks about his life and career in the “Off the Cuff” podcast: And thus a star was born. In his book, which Burns hopes will “create a roadmap for kids who are in film school or coming out of film school,” he chronicles in painstaking detail how, as a working class Irish-American... Read more

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