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Published: 03/5/11

Note to Mike Huckabee: Lay Off of Natalie Portman's Baby

By  Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily
Note to Mike Huckabee: Lay Off of Natalie Portman's Baby

Following the Academy Awards telecast, Mike Huckabee told radio host Michael Medved "I'm very happy to say that I missed it because usually it's about the most boring waste of several hours that I've ever experienced." I can't disagree with the former governor about the dullness of most of this year's broadcast, but I dotake issue with what he had to say next about Best Actress winner Natalie Portman. The former and perhaps future GOP presidential aspirant disparaged the star for being a poor example by encouraging women to have "out-of-wedlock" children (why not just call them "bastards," ...

Published: 02/28/11

The Oscars: 'The King's Speech' and Natalie Portman Reign

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
The Oscars: 'The King's Speech' and Natalie Portman Reign

On an evening celebrating youth, when the parade of glamour on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre gave off plenty of Hollywood sparkle, "The King's Speech," a traditional historical drama about George VI, who overcame a crippling stammer to lead England in World War II, dominated the top honors at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony Sunday. So much for "The Social Network," which as the film about the creation of Facebook, represented the young and rising 21st century and had been the front-runner to win the best movie Oscar early on in the awards race. In its near sweep, "The King's Speech" ...

Published: 07/9/10

'The Kids Are All Right': A Modern American Family

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
'The Kids Are All Right': A Modern American Family

With the nationwide opening Friday of "The Kids Are All Right," a nearly perfect movie, a Sundance award-winner now gathering acclaim, we can declare with some certainty that stodgy, conventional Hollywood has finally made the great cultural leap to bring to the screen an exceptional picture of a perfectly normal lesbian couple and their children -- a modern American family. Heartrending, occasionally funny, tearfully profound, "The Kids Are All Right" is the first U.S. film to portray a lesbian couple with kids just like most families -- ordinary, sane, stable, caring, and flawed. We've got ...

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