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Entertainment Weekly‘s Josh Rottenberg (assisted by five other EW staff) has written a well-reported and mostly insightful article about a tension nearly as old as the movie business: that between filmmakers and churches.
It’s very hard to write a story about homosexuality, conservative activists, hypocrisy and politics without veering into religion — at least a little bit.
From historian Douglas Brinkley’s profile of Bob Dylan in the May 14 Rolling Stone (available online only in the smallest snippets):
Time‘s latest list of the world’s 100 most influential people is a frustrating exercise. I’ve praised this list before, but that was in a year (2007) when religion attracted 17 references. This year’s list makes me more sympathetic to the argument that Time‘s categories of influential people — Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artists & Entertainers, Heroes & Icons and Scientists & Thinkers — make it too easy to ignore spiritual leaders.
Religious persecution tends to make for sensational stories. There’s a lot of human drama, and for better or worse, it’s easy to confirm the worst fears of certain segment of the population that is skeptical of the “organized religion” behemoth. It’s no wonder that journalists pounce on them when they find them.
From Walter Scott’s Personality Parade, addressing a question on whether Serena Williams’ choices in clothing are appropriate for a Jehovah’s Witness:
I’ve posted before in this space about the tensions between Catholic faith and glamour that existed in the household of William F. Buckley Jr. and his beloved wife, Pat. Now comes a tantalizing excerpt, through The New York Times Magazine, from Christopher Buckley’s memoir, Losing Mum and Pup.
