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...name he was born with was Manoj Shyamalan. His parents, physicians living in the U.S., went to Pondicherry, India, to have him, then moved to the Philadelphia area when he was a few months old. Although the family is Hindu, young Manoj was sent to a Roman Catholic school "for the discipline." He says he felt like an outsider and remembers teachers saying that people who weren't baptized were going to hell. (Says Shyamalan: "I'd be, like, 'I'm not baptized, so I guess I'll see you guys later.'") He also recalls being called in front...
...singer calls the sisters "mothers of shame," "masters of pain" and "twisters of truth," which doesn't quite rhyme, but makes the point. The Catholic League is unimpressed. "Much like the rest of Hollywood," says a spokesman, "she is trying to sell her CD on the backs of Roman Catholics." Considering the album's title and mode of sale, it doesn't sound as if she's trying to sell...
...have to be able to step back far enough from something to see it for what it is. All of the most absurd things in history went largely unquestioned, because people were already indoctrinated in them. It would be something like going to the Coliseum if you were a Roman. The fact that people were getting killed and eaten by lions didn't seem strange to you; you grew up with that. Hip-hop's language and messages are normal now to people, normal to someone my son's age. I remember a time before that came...
...sinks to clichd subjects and metaphors, singing about love through old age and rages against infidelity and abuse. For all the songs' backwards compliments, Heaton's muse is always in sight, as on "10,000 Feet": "the landing won't be fatal/If love's parachute's been dropped." A- -Roman Altshuler...
...they would go about it. In America respect for religious freedom often translates into an illogical deference to anything termed religious, allowing intolerance to run under the banner of religious belief. Anti-gay bigotry in Nebraska is no different. Prominent among its supporters, Nebraska's Mormons, evangelicals and Roman Catholics rallied around the flagpole to pass Proposition...