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...find Eminem's Ass Like That there. And if a song is called Can't Keep It In, you can bet it's about love for Jesus. Music fans looking for Christian inspiration now have a sacred space on the Internet to download songs. Howard Rachinski, creator of the Church Copyright License program, which allows houses of worship to copy music and distribute it to their congregations, will launch Songtouch.com next month. Billed as a "Christian Napster," the service will debut with 15,000 inspirational songs, from gospel to rap, making it the most comprehensive website of its kind. Songs...
What would Yoda think? The next--and final--Star Wars movie will achieve a franchise first, according to George Lucas: a PG-13 rating. "I don't think I would take a 5- or a 6-year-old to this," the series creator told CBS's 60 Minutes of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, opening May 19. In Sith, Anakin Skywalker, played by HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN, transforms into Darth Vader in an especially dark scene. Of course, since most Star Wars fans are actually 12-year-olds trapped in the bodies of thirtysomethings, they should have no trouble...
...curious thing is going on in the U.S. Even as the nation is writing gays out of the definition of its most exalted relationship, gay writers--like Housewives creator Marc Cherry and Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy--are behind the TV shows that are most provocatively defining straight relationships. HBO's Six Feet Under, the multilayered story of the lives and loves of a family that runs a funeral home, sprang from the mind of gay screenwriter Alan Ball (American Beauty). Before it, HBO's Sex and the City, which set the standard for frank talk about women and love...
...life, though, it does. (See those November results, above.) If these gay writers are inclined to think creatively about love and identity, maybe it's because they didn't have the option of accepting the standard assumptions. Growing up gay, says Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, "you have a pretty deeply ingrained sense of being an outsider. You don't swallow the mythology of pop culture hook, line and sinker because you know it's not true, for you, anyway...
...soap operas, which can often be code for "too girly." Says Cherry, whose writing staff has five gays and six straights: "We push the boundaries in our lives by being gay. When we write, we are perfectly willing to write extreme behavior." Ilene Chaiken, the lesbian writer and creator of The L Word, theorizes that gay men and women inevitably experience love as heightened drama. "One of the things that always make for a great love story is the obstacles," she says. "These writers are bringing to these stories not only their experiences of illicit love but enough illicitness...