According to reports filed late Friday, between July 1st, 2008, and December 31st, 2008, officials for the Mormon Church spent more than one-hundred and eighty thousand dollars in in-kind contributions to support the passing of Proposition 8 – that in addition to the upwards of at least twenty million dollars contributed by Mormon families to the Yes On 8 campaign.
The Associated Press reports that the televangelist empire created by Robert H. Schuller, which is best exemplified by the weekly Hour of Power broadcast from the gaudy confines of the Crystal Cathedral located in Garden Grove, California, is collapsing and is not likely to survive, owing in large part to the still unexplained departure of Schuller’s obvious successor, his son Robert A. Schuller.
Communal living, looming, potluck dinners, woman spelt with a y – it can all only mean one thing – a quasi-secretive lesbian community and the New York Times visits the clandestine enclave located, surprisingly, in Alapine, Alabama, in the heart of the American Bible belt, and finds a land that time forgot.
If I could, I would have voted Barack Obama for Prime Minister – the whole medium cool vibe, the intelligence, the political engagement, and the very righteous First Family – it all seems so much more alive than the barely there Stephen Harper and family. When I realized that daughters Malia and Sasha were rocking J.Crew – my causal clothier of choice – I fell a little more in love. Now comes word that Michelle is, in conjunction with California based designer Michael Smith, planning to decorate the children’s White House rooms with items from the Pottery Barn, well, I’ve fallen in love hard.
I admire Jake Gyllenhaal, what with the pretending and all, although his entire ensemble worn at the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s tribute to David Fincher – the, um felt fedora and the whole serious scarf scenario – may be giving up the secret of one of my favorite faux-terosexuals.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the body/face of Huge Boss’s new cologne Element, was on hand in Manhattan Friday at Macys to launch said scent, sporting something just short of scruff.
On the eve of 44th Super Bowl, The Washington Post examines an interesting, but barely noticed trend in the NFL where league officials, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, no longer endorse military terminology to describe games – a shift in policy carried over into NFL films, which used to be saturated with phrases like “search and destroy” and “devastating ground attacks.” All of this takes on more meaning with one of the teams, the Arizona Cardinals, appearing for the first time in the Championship and still mourning the loss of former safety Pat Tillman, who left the NFL after September 11. 2001, to serve in the military and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
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