The release, a few weeks ago, of Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has put the fantasy books and apologetic writings of C.S. Lewis back into the forefront. Atheists and secular humanists will be decrying this public demonstration of religion, and many conservatives and Christians will be defending Lewis’
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Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Willis O’Brien, and Edgar Wallace would be proud to know that it would take 72 years for someone to improve on their original King Kong, and even then it would take one of our best film makers to pull it off—namely Peter Jackson. Helmer Jackson offers up more than
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Here’s a slightly early Christmas gift for those of you who think I only attack pundits on the Left. Today, let’s take a look at a piece from the Right, written by Trevor Bothwell, a freelance writer living in Maryland. Bothwell certainly has respectable Conservative movement bona fides, considering that he writes frequently for The
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With her brief life that seems to prove that a small taste of success is worse than total failure, this young would-be starlet, née Lillian Millicent Entwistle, will forever be part of Hollywood lore. Born in Port Talbot, Wales in 1908, Peg’s family soon moved to London. There, her mother died while Peg was still
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The sad case of Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, a resident of Melbourne, Australia, provides a window on current perceptions of morality. Nguyen was sentenced to death in March, 2004, after being convicted for smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia. He was arrested at Singapore’s Changi Airport in December, 2002, where he was in
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A few days ago, I was at the Tysons Corner Center shopping mall. (The non-use of apostrophes in place names here in northern Virginia is an interesting local custom, that seems to defy explanation.) Worn out from walking around, I took a break, sitting on one of the many benches. Before long, I noticed a
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Those of us who have been fighting the lunatic fringe of the inaptly named environmental movement—and, sadly, it’s a pretty large fringe—took some encouragement from an editorial in the November 8th Wall Street Journal entitled “DDT Save Lives.” While the content of this piece offers nothing new to anyone rational in this field, I would
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No artistic medium provides a better look at contemporary pop culture than movies. Even if the film under consideration is done as a period piece of the deep past or way into the future, the contemporary pop culture is absolutely reflected in virtually every aspect of the work. Let us then examine “Happy Accidents” (2000)—an
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Many readers will remember that line from Rick Nelson’s 1972 gold record “Garden Party,” that described his experiences during an October, 1971 concert at Madison Square Garden. It was more than a bit ironic that one of his biggest hits would chronicle his frustration with some of his fans, as well as the music business
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I think it’s time for a reality check on this whole matter. Let’s take this from the ground up, starting with the utility of The Law in our society… The vast majority of lawsuits are petty and emotion-driven, involving issues that would be better resolved by alternative means. The proliferation of litigation stems from the
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