by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 23, 2005 | Opinion
Ah, the fat suit. How did Hollywood ever manage a comedy without one? Even though Ryan Reynolds straps one on for part of this holiday comedy, he manages quite nicely without it, too. The actor from TV’s long-gone “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place”...
by Tim Adams | Nov 22, 2005 | Opinion
“Walk the Line,” the latest offering from director James Mangold (“Girl Interrupted,” “Identity”), chronicles the first 36 years of the life of rock and roll pioneer and country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) and his one...
by Gary Farley | Nov 22, 2005 | Opinion
When rural families gather to celebrate Thanksgiving Day soon, a wide variety of emotions about the past year and the coming year will be expressed by some and suppressed by others. The Thrashers, Gibsons, and Wests will rejoice in the fact that their husbands and...
by Mike Parnell | Nov 21, 2005 | Opinion
Joseph Fletcher put forth the tenets of “situational ethics,” stating that each situation dictates proper action and that love ultimately guides the process of decision. What we see in “Capote,” the new film biography of Truman Capote, is how...
by Larry McSwain | Nov 21, 2005 | Opinion
One of the significant challenges for the contemporary church is the encouragement of Christian vocation for its future leadership. Kay Shurden and I took on this challenge in a small book we have written, Call Waiting: God’s Invitation to Youth. It grew out of...
by Britt Towery | Nov 18, 2005 | Opinion
Up until three years ago the lands of Iraq and Iran would have been hard for many Americans to find on a world map. We knew next to nothing about their history, language and culture. We only knew they had a dictator of the worst kind. The British and French following...
