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Salon.com The "Jewsploitation" Craze

Jonathan Kesselman's "The Hebrew Hammer" is the manifesto for a hip, hype-driven "new Jewishness." But here's a news flash: American Jews aren't actually black, and anti-Semitic stereotypes aren't automatically funny...

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The "Jewsploitation" craze

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Furor Will Follow Jackson to UK

Pop star Michael Jackson, expected to fly to Britain this week for a Christmas visit, is unlikely to escape the furor surrounding his forthcoming court fight over a barrage of child sex charges back home...

MSNBC - Furor?will follow Jackson to UK

Legal Affairs: Your Cellphone Is Watching You

IF YOU PURCHASED A NEW CELLPHONE over the past 18 months or so, odds are that one of the features listed in small print on the side of the box was "E911 capable." Or, as in the case of my latest Motorola, "Location technology for piece [sic] of mind." Perhaps you asked the salesman to explain the feature, and he replied that it means that cops can home in on your phone in case of an emergency, a potentially important perk should you ever find your hand pinned beneath an immovable boulder in rural Utah, as Aron Ralston did recently. Assuming he could have gotten a signal, an E911-capable phone might have saved the young backpacker the pain of having to amputate his own arm.

Legal Affairs: July | August 2003

Theater Review: Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant'

The gutsiest gimmick in New York theater for 2003? There's really no contest. And no, it's not the producers Fran and Barry Weissler's casting the nonsinging, nondancing Melanie Griffith in the musical "Chicago." The honors this year go to Les Freres Corbusier, the archly named (and non-French) experimental troupe, which decided to tell the story of Scientology through the mouths of babes...

Theater Review | 'Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant': Crayon-Colored Excursion Into Positive Thinking

Who's Afraid of a Little Propaganda?

The guardians of the journalistic temple are terrified by the Pentagon's plans for a 24-hour satellite news and information channel—nicknamed "C-SPAN Baghdad"—that would leapfrog the national networks by allowing local U.S. TV affiliates to broadcast interviews with U.S. authorities, official briefings, military ceremonies, and camel-pull contests (just kidding) directly from Iraq...

Who's Afraid of a Little Propaganda? - Not me. Bring on "C-SPAN Baghdad"! By Jack?Shafer

Salon.com: The Greatest Week In Rock History

Thirty-four years ago this week, the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Temptations, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Creedence Clearwater all shared top billing on the Billboard album chart. There's never been another lineup quite like it -- and there will never be again...

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The greatest week in rock history

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2004 Golden Globe Nominations

Cold Mountain," director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Charles Frazier's novel about a love tested by the Civil War, dominated the Golden Globe nominations announced today by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.

The Miramax Film release, which opens theatrically Christmas Day, earned eight nominations, including best dramatic picture, best director and recognition for its three stars -- Jude Law and Nicole Kidman who received best actor and actress noms, and Renee Zellweger, who was singled out for a best supporting actress nomination.

On the television side, HBO's "Angels in America," Mike Nichols' adaptation of Tony Kushner's epic play about AIDS in the age of Reagan, walked off with a commanding seven nominations, with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep leading its list of nominees.

The Hollywood Reporter.com: Golden Globes

The Return of The King Review

This is frankly one of the greatest films ever made. It towers over the other so-called epics of the year in a way that one could only imagine it was like when INTOLERANCE was released 87 years ago. What was it like in 1916 to see a film on that scale? Beside all the two-reelers and three-reelers and four-reelers to see a true epic. One with spectacle and size so immense that as you watched it, you knew… you felt the screen busting at the seams to hold it all...

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'Butch Cassidy,' 'Patton' in National Film Registry

WASHINGTON -- The Western outlaw romp "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and the more obscure "The Chechahcos," with its frenzied dogsled pursuits in Alaska, have been added to the National Film Registry.

'Butch Cassidy,' 'Patton' in National Film Registry