Anthony Sacramone

David Mamet has had a political conversion . . . of sorts. I remember an interview Mamet gave around the time Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer, to the effect that he found there to be many beautiful things about capitalism, which you would not have expected from the guy who seemed only to . . . . Continue Reading »

It seems that Geert Wilders’ fifteen-minute film on the Qur’an, called Fitna , has a few nasty things to say about the Islamic text as well as some of the atavistic ideas imported into his country. So much so that it has caused the Netherlanderisherite government (I can never remember . . . . Continue Reading »

On Tuesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., Father Neuhaus will be speaking at the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in Metuchen, New Jersey, on “The Catholic as Citizen.” On Saturday, March 15, beginning at 10:30 a.m., he will be giving two Lenten recollections at the Philippine Pastoral . . . . Continue Reading »

So it seems B16 will argue that Luther wasn’t so much a heretic as he was . . . ahead of his time. I’m sure Herr Luther feels much better now. (And does this mean the Vatican wants its bull back? Good luck with that . . . ) By way of Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren. Update: Amy Welborn . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . at least now that John Hagee is in his corner . For those of you who have not been counting down to Armageddon since that concatenation of false prophecy The Late Great Planet Earth hit bookstores back in 1970, John Hagee’s ministry consists of oversize illustrations of . . . . Continue Reading »

Carl Olson over at Ignatius Press’ Insight Scoop blog relates how one Catholic bishop had the audacity to prevent a Catholic biblical scholar from speaking at the Newman Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. That scholar is Luke Timothy Johnson. The bishop, Edward . . . . Continue Reading »

N.Y. Times homepage has just announced. He was 82. Update: Here’s the Times ’ obit , which obviously had been in the can for a while. (Check out the fourth graf. And thanks to Ryan Anderson for pointing it out.) . . . . Continue Reading »

Jonathan , it would seem that only some movies build an audience over time. Check out the Annie Hall entry at imdb.com: $38 million is pathetic . (Granted, Allen may be an exception to all rules: To date, Hannah and Her Sisters , one of the most overrated films, never mind Woody Allen films, of all . . . . Continue Reading »

Or so says t his report . There’s something fishy here. First of all, it was conducted by the United Nations. Did they offer respondents food for an “N/A” response? And why is Asma Jahangir, a UN “special rapporteur” (is that anything like a really good . . . . Continue Reading »

“I’m thinkin’ cardboard,” says Jerry, one of the strange creatures that frequent Be Kind Rewind, a ramshackle mom-and-pop videostore in Passaic, New Jersey. And the film Be Kind Rewind is loaded with cardboard, as in the cheap casings of those relics of the 1980s—VHS . . . . Continue Reading »