The biggest next after my decade in network television was socio-political. It had begun brewing in me years earlier with the proliferation of fundamentalist TV ministries that perverted the pulpit by mixing politics and religion and spewing the sort of malice that horrified me when I was nine and came upon Father Coughlin on my crystal set.\n
Three years ago, Betsy Diamant-Cohen had a double knee replacement. Once healed, the Baltimore resident got on a bicycle and slowly built up her strength to the point that she recently flew to Israel to participate in a cycling fundraiser for the Arava Institute and Hazon Israel Ride.
The head of Sony Pictures consulted with a senior U.S. official in June, days after North Korea threatened \”merciless countermeasures\” over the release of an upcoming film featuring a plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong Un, leaked emails show.
Sony Pictures on Wednesday pulled the theatrical release of its North Korea comedy \”The Interview,\” hours before a U.S. government source said investigators determined that North Korea was behind a cyberattack on Sony over the film.
Howard Banchik will tell you there’s a lot more to music and learning to play an instrument than meets the ears.\n
Sonny Calderon still remembers the words his outraged 8-year-old son cried out when he learned Santa Claus wasn’t real, that his father had been perpetuating a myth: “I hate you, and I hate the way your farts smell.”
The New York premiere of \”The Interview\”, a Sony Pictures comedy about the assassination of North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, has been canceled and a source said one theatre chain had scrapped plans to show it, after threats from a hacking group.
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