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Pope's 'Passion of the Christ': Don't Blame Jews for Death of Jesus
By David Gibson
In a new book on the historical Jesus set for release next week, Pope Benedict XVI forcefully argues that the Jewish people cannot be blamed for Christ's death on the cross and that even the most historically loaded Gospel phrases -- such as when the crowd shouts, "His blood be on us and on our ...
Former Senator Chris Dodd to Head Motion Picture Association
By Politics Daily Staff
Former Connecticut senator and one-time presidential contender Chris Dodd has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, a Democrat who served five terms in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 2011 and headed the powerful Senate Banking Committee, ...
Melissa Leo's Unscripted Moment at the Academy Awards
By Bonnie Goldstein
The Oscars didn't really hold my attention Sunday night and sadly, after I got distracted,they still went on and on. Before the first commercial, however, I was glad to hear winning cinematographer Wally Pfister thank his "union crew" on the film "Inception." As my husband is a member of the ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady
This year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged ...
The Oscars: Young, Pretty, Snarky, So Who's Watching?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
By now you've probably heard about that cute pair who will be hosting the Oscars -- James Franco and Anne Hathaway, he with his flirty eyes, she with her princess smile -- both pretty, lean, chirpy, young. They've dominated the entertainment and morning news shows, the celebrity magazines, and the ...
Are We Returning to the 'June Cleaver' Era? (And Would June Stand for What's Going On?)
By Joanne Bamberger
Ever since the 112th Congress was sworn in last month, there's been a seemingly endless barrage of news about lawmakers trying to take away many of women's hard-fought rights, so much so that I feel like Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine has deposited me on June Cleaver's 1950s doorstep. Morning after ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady
The Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her ...
Gay Marriage Decision May Not Hurt Obama or Help the Religious Right
By David Gibson
When the Obama administration announced that it would adopt a matador defense on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the reaction from conservative Christian activists alternated between rage and celebration that the president had basically allowed the political right a slam dunk for the 2012 ...
'The King's Speech': Hollywood History Needn't Be Accurate
By Bonnie Goldstein
I don't disagree with Peter Brown's essay in Politics Daily that "The Kings Speech" is bad history. The film, nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, at this weekend's Oscar ceremony, leaves the average student of 20th-century world history scratching her head. I seem to ...
Why 'The King's Speech' Shouldn't Win the Oscar for Best Picture
By Peter Brown
The movie "The King's Speech" is entertaining, uplifting and worth seeing. But it shouldn't win the Oscar for Best Picture when the Academy Awards are handed out Sunday night. This view has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with the false impression it leaves that King George VI was the ...
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