While I am not a football fan, I have watched almost every Super Bowl game for the last 30 years for three reasons: the commercials, the food and the company. …

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In 1954, 13-year-old Bernard Garrett hangs around a bank in Marlin, Texas, listening to men in suits talk money and business and real estate deals. He writes mathematical formulas in …

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Do film awards matter? I think they do, especially if they are bestowed from one’s peers. It is incredibly challenging and complex to get a film made and distributed. Film …

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In the first episode of “Unorthodox,” a new original series from Netflix, Esther Shapiro or “Esty” (Shira Haas) as she is known in her family and ultra-Orthodox Yiddish-speaking Satmar Hasidic …

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There is nothing like being unexpectedly homebound, as the coronavirus has done to us all.

Even if you are working remotely, the days may be shorter because others are in a …

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An hourlong documentary about the man who could be the second Native American (after St. Kateri Tekakwitha) and first American Indian male to be canonized a saint, is airing on …

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In 1971, when the new television series “Mrs. America” begins, Phyllis Schlafly, played to perfection by Cate Blanchett, is at the top of her game.

With a graduate degree in government …

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An hourlong documentary about the man who could be the second Native American (after St. Kateri Tekakwitha) and first American Indian male to be canonized a saint, is airing on …

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“A Hidden Life,” released Dec. 13 in theatres, is a contemplative kind of biopic of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943). He has now been beatified by the Catholic Church, …

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Days after his historic election on March 13, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, tries to book a ticket to Lampedusa to visit refugees there, but the booking …

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I wish I had been home that day in 2004 when the 6-foot-6-inch Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant visited our Pauline Books and Media Center in Culver City, …

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“What better agent of chaos is there than a new Messiah?” asks a character in the new Netflix drama series “Messiah” from show creator and writer Michael Petroni and executive …

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