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...name of this creed is evangelical atheism. Now, atheism is certainly not a religion, and the phrase “evangelical atheism” certainly appears oxymoronic. But we have witnessed in our time the rise of a virulent strain of atheism championed by Bill Maher, the comedian and star of Religulous, the secularist philosopher Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, and their often indignant ilk. For all its schooling and pretense of intellectualism, this godless vanguard unknowingly adopts the very aspects of religion its leaders passionately lambaste and turns atheism into the kind of evangelical ideology it opposes...
...mesmerizing film to behold.The plot, inspired by true events and adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan from his Tony Award-winning stage play, is encapsulated within its title. “Frost/Nixon” tells the story of David Frost (Michael Sheen), a British comedian, who sets out to interview disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon (Langella). What begins for Frost as a publicity stunt quickly grows into something more—a mission to extract from Nixon the confession he never gave to the American people. “Tricky Dick,” on the other hand...
...Like any expatriate who lands a plum management position overseas, Reid must now wrestle with an alien culture and a tricky language. But unlike other foreign execs, he must manage not a company but a national team - at a time of national crisis. "Football is about nothing," British comedian Peter Cook once said, "unless it is about something." These days, Reid will discover, everything in Thailand is about politics - including football...
...There's certainly no national figure - comedian or actor - who's known for doing Obama these days; that's for sure," says Matt Hovde, director of Chicago's famous improv group the Second City, where SNL alum and Sarah Palin stunt double Tina Fey got her start. "Someone's got to be ready to cash their ticket out there somehow...
...Japanese comedian Nozomu Sato can relate. The unlikely Obama impersonator has become a star in his own right, despite not knowing who Obama was 10 months ago. "I thought he was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," Sato told TIME last month...