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2015-04-24T16:22:18-08:00

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‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Former Child Star Dies by Suspected Suicide (UPDATED)

Last updated on: April 24, 2015 at 4:22 pm By Kate O'Hare

We never know what is in the heart of another person, even if we saw them every week in our living room. Never forget that TV is not reality, and that life after TV — especially for child actors — can take strange and tragic turns. On CBS’ long-running sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Sawyer Sweeten and his brother Sullivan played Geoffrey and Michael Barone,the twin sons of Long Island, N.Y., sportswriter Raymond Barone (Ray Romano) and his wife, Debra (Patricia Heaton).... Read more

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2015-04-22T18:05:41-08:00

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‘Deadliest Catch’: Sig Hansen and Jake Anderson on Being Lutherans and Husbands

Last updated on: April 22, 2015 at 6:05 pm By Kate O'Hare

The band’s back together on the F/V Northwestern on Discovery’s reality hit “Deadliest Catch,” currently airing its 11th season on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. After an ultimately unsuccessful sojourn on the F/V Kiska Sea last year, deckhand Jake Anderson is back on the boat where he was a greenhorn, under his mentor, Capt. Sig Hansen. Although the show is only a couple of weeks into the new season, the actual fishing season has been over for months, and now the... Read more

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2015-04-22T11:23:30-08:00

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Who Dies on TV, and Why?

Last updated on: April 22, 2015 at 11:23 am By Kate O'Hare

The debate over how TV does or doesn’t reflect reality will never end, mostly because there’s no easy answer. Sometimes TV is ahead of society — especially when show creators have an agenda to push — sometimes, it’s way behind, and sometimes it appears to exist in alternate universe. This is especially noticeable in crime dramas, which, depending on the genre, can be gritty and torn from the headlines, or escapist fantasy. All crime dramas have one thing in common... Read more

2015-04-21T13:16:29-08:00

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Twitter Warrior Nick Searcy Feels Responsibility as “Gosnell” Director

Last updated on: April 21, 2015 at 1:16 pm By Kate O'Hare

As pointed out in a recent story about Nick Searcy, late of FX’s drama “Justified,” in the U.K. Telegraph, the veteran actor is no stranger to controversy. One might even say, he’s steady-dated controversy for years, particularly on Twitter, where the bio reads: Peabody Award-Winning International Film and Television Star. All new followers must proceed directly to Acting School with Nick Searcy before addressing me. Said the Telegraph: Prompted by the 2012 death of conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, Searcy found himself... Read more

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2015-04-21T09:17:50-08:00

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The Joy of the Cows

Last updated on: April 21, 2015 at 9:17 am By Kate O'Hare

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad. Psalms: 118 I grew up in a town surrounded by dairy farms, so pastures full of cows were a daily sight. Past a certain age, dairy cows are not especially rambunctious creatures. But given a reason for joy, they can kick up their heels with the best of them. As reported by NPR, on a Sunday each mid-April, Danes gather near 75 organic dairy farms... Read more

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2015-04-21T10:47:13-08:00

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‘Independence Day’ Sequel: Will God Be Invited Back? (UPDATED)

Last updated on: April 21, 2015 at 10:47 am By Kate O'Hare

Few science-fiction movies — indeed, few action movies — these days make room for God, for traditional marriage and for explicit prayer. But all three of these were front and center in the 1996 blockbuster hit “Independence Day.” Directed by Roland Emmerich (“The Patriot,” “2012,” “The Day After Tomorrow”), and produced and written by Dean Devlin (“Stargate,” “Leverage,” “The Librarians”) — the son of a Jewish father and a Filipina mother — the film centers on an unlikely pair of... Read more

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2015-04-19T18:40:35-08:00

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‘Beyond A.D.’: Juan Pablo Di Pace on the Cross He Wears

Last updated on: April 19, 2015 at 6:40 pm By Kate O'Hare

In an earlier interview I did with NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues” star Juan Pablo Di Pace, who plays Jesus, the actor spoke about his mother: Di Pace’s mother is religious painter Marta Maineri, who named her third son after Pope John Paul II. “She came to the shoot,” said Di Pace. “She was at the Crucifixion, my own mother. I called her before, and I said, ‘I was auditioning for a part, auditioning for Jesus.’ She said, ‘Oh, Juan... Read more

2015-04-19T19:17:05-08:00

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Holy QB! The Philadelphia Eagles to Sign Tim Tebow (UPDATED)

Last updated on: April 19, 2015 at 7:17 pm By Kate O'Hare

Back on March 19, I reported on the strange coincidences between quarterback Tim Tebow and the Scriptural reference John 3:16, especially during his stint with the Denver Broncos. I ended the story with this: What we do know is that Tebow worked out on Monday for the Philadelphia Eagles, who didn’t immediately want to sign him (but didn’t say they never would). If perhaps the Eagles did eventually take Tebow, he would be the backup to Mark Sanchez, the same QB he... Read more

2015-04-18T16:09:12-08:00

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PBS Spotlights the Buffalo Mass Mob

Last updated on: April 18, 2015 at 4:09 pm By Kate O'Hare

In Nov. 2013, the Buffalo Mass Mob began as an effort spearheaded by Buffalo, New York, resident Christopher Byrd to gather together Catholics to fill the pews at a designated historic church for a particular Mass. The goal was not only fellowship but to bring attention and new life to beautiful churches that were losing parishioners because of ethnic and demographic shifts. After an AP story about the group ran in Feb. 2014, interest piqued. I wrote about it a few... Read more

2015-04-16T17:24:37-08:00

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The CW’s Apocalyptic ‘The Messengers’ Taps ‘The Bible’s’ Jesus as the Devil

Last updated on: April 16, 2015 at 5:24 pm By Kate O'Hare

Somewhere in the pilot for The CW’s new drama “The Messengers,” premiering Friday, April 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT — and which I got to screen at the network’s headquarters last Monday — a character announces that there are no coincidences. After the screening, stars Shantal VanSanten (who said she was “raised Catholic”) and Jon Fletcher (“The Good Wife”), and executive producer Trey Callaway (“Revolution”) — a convert to Judaism whose mother is a Presbyterian minister — came in to... Read more

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