(2013) By the hymen of Olivia Newton-John, I just don’t understand those who knock Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as “a retread.” That’s like saying you don’t like sex because it “feels the same as the last time.” This time around, now the early 1980s, blowhard network anchor Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell, The Lego Movie) […]
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Most Fabulous donation
That letter was sent to the governor’s office and all members of the state Legislature, among others. They said the play, which is a satirical look at “Adam and Steve” in the Garden of Eden, violates Oklahoma’s obscenity laws. The pastors wanted the play closed and the producers and actors held accountable by law enforcement. […]
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LETTERS
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma for my undergraduate degree and went on to graduate from medical school at the University of Oklahoma. My values are as Oklahoman as yours. I am writing to let you know how disappointed I am that you have allowed your fear to cloud your judgments. Everybody is afraid […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Recurring themes — Among America’s most prolific “fathers” (in this case, perhaps better considered “egg-fertilizers”) are Nathaniel Smith, age 39, who claimed on TV’s Divorce Court in September that he is the father of 27, and the late Samuel Whitney, whose grown stepdaughter Lexie Woods learned that he claimed 54 before he died in July […]
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Most Fabulous Protest
Fans of the arts — and of the biblical parody — say a conservative Christian group is targeting the play and threatening to have the producers and actors arrested on opening night. “This is a tongue-in-cheek look at ‘Adam and Steve’ in the Garden of Eden,” said J.D. Bergner, a concerned member of the theater […]
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Get free
Steve McQueen’s emotionally jarring biopic, 12 Years a Slave, depicts slavery in a way that few, if any, have ever dared. BY ZACH HALE Slavery was a dark and shameful time in American history — unequivocally the darkest. Yet while the era has been portrayed on the silver screen in countless films, director Steve McQueen […]
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American Experience offers warts-and-all portrait of controversial president JFK
bY Dean robbins I’m powerless to resist a documentary about John F. Kennedy. Though I’m well aware of the late president’s faults, I’m drawn in by his charisma every time. I cheer his triumphs and bemoan his tragedies. And I always respond to images of the assassination as if I’m seeing them for the first […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact number […]
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Keeping order
This is the home of the Sekhet Bast Ra Oasis, the local chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis religious fraternal order. Not familiar with the OTO? You’re not alone. While its heyday was the 1910s, the order’s Oklahoma City chapter—called an “Oasis”—has been around since 1984. The chapter’s administrator — or “body master” — said […]