Mel Gibson’s controversial film is more of the same nose-rubbing at a time when we can do without sensationalizing religion. This 2000 year old event has had more than enough coverage from the various fields of art and books to satiate a thousand millennia. Riding on the success of “Braveheart” with its excruciating violence, Gibson is now profiteering on the execution of another martyr in a time when martyrdom has been loosely defined by Islamic jihad. Though I have not seen the film, nor int...

Julia Roberts may be a wife and mother, but she still brings home the bacon - to the tune of $20 million per movie.The 38-year-old star tops The Hollywood Reporter's annual list of the highest-paid actresses for the second straight year. Nicole Kidman is second, with a $16 million to $17 million per-film price tag, followed by "Walk the Line" star Reese Witherspoon and actress-producer Drew Barrymore, who each command $15 million per project. Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie and Cameron Dia...

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The cure for baseball’s dwindling popularity is for ESPN and sports magazines to take a hiatus and end the alarm: “The NFL and NBA are coming! The NFL and NBA are coming!” throughout the boys of summer season. It might also help golf, especially the LPGA.…Sometimes, I think Newsweek is propagating all faiths with its articles by the volumes on religion—most recently “Islam in America.”… Convicts in NY are dissatisfied with the prison libraries that contain only 150 books each for twenty reli...