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A Temecula mother has complained that her 15-year-old daughter was made to read a sexually explicit play in drama class and is calling for a policy to prevent such instances in the future. Tracy Nolasco said her daughter, a Temecula Valley High School sophomore, had to read “Angels in America,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner. The play, set in New York City in 1985, explores the AIDS epidemic as well as religion, race, politics, and homosexuality. Nolasco on Tuesday night, May 16, told the Temecula Valley school board that the drama describes sexual activity, sexual...

The Israeli government and private groups are watching closely the activities of an anti-Israel American group that supports the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement against Israel. The Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a San Francisco-based organization, has been operating since 1996 and has conducted numerous anti-Israel activities, especially on college campuses. JVP claims not to be anti-Israel, but many officials in the Jewish community said that, based on its agenda, there was no way JVP could claim to be pro-Israel, but was actually the opposite. The NGO Monitor group accused JVP of seeking to sow dissent among American Jewish campus...

AT A RECENT family gathering, my cousin-in-law, Janice, asked me to respond to complaints she'd read over and over again about "Munich"... ***Why does the movie show Mossad agents having doubts and regrets about killing terrorists when apparently they never have doubts and regrets? Why did you make that up? I've never killed anyone, but my instincts as a person and a playwright — and the best books I've read about soldiers or cops or people whose jobs bring them into violent physical conflict — suggest that people in general don't kill without feeling torn up about it. ***Janice asked...

Steven Spielberg's next movie tells the touching story of two male Palestinian suicide bombers who fall in love and engage in graphic on-screen sex before detonating themselves at a Natany shopping mall. Tentative title: Blowback Mountain. I made that up, of course, but more than happenstance links Ang Lee's gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain with Spielberg's Munich, the subject of the cover story in this week's Time magazine. It isn't only that gays have a thing for cowboys (remember the Village People?), not to mention Arabs (wasn't Lawrence of Arabia a gay flick?). The American left sympathizes with Palestinians for...

A New York Times article, today, confirms everything I've written (here and here) and worse regarding Steven Spielberg's upcoming "Vengeance" movie. It is now a certainty that Mr. "Schindler's List" will expend the capital he earned on that film to now HUMANIZE(!) Palestinian terrorists who murdered the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. It's bad enough that Spielberg ran the script by Arafat-fan Bill Clinton--Arafat ordered the Olympic athlete massacre--and other assorted Clintonistas who drooled over Arafat, like Mike McCurry and Dennis Ross. Worse is the revelation that playwright Tony Kushner (a self-avowed socialist and gay activist) is praised...

CULTURAL ELITE TRASH LAURA BUSH: How low will they go? Terry McAuliffe and John Kerry's continuing to fuel the Bush AWOL story is to be expected. The Dems will stop at nothing to take back the White House. But when the elite in the entertainment world start targeting Laura Bush, they are in for a bruising. Elite playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) isn't content on blaming Ronald Reagan for the AIDS epidemic, his new punching bag is the First Lady. Unlike the previous First Lady, Laura Bush has rarely involved herself in important policy matters--she is more of a...

 A NEW LOW: Tony Kushner "bravely" takes on Laura Bush in - shock, horror - Cambridge, Massachusetts. What a hero of pushing the envelope! What daring! What artistic courage! Here's how Alex Beam puts it: Welcome to Kushnerworld - Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angels in America" Kushnerworld - where heterosexuals are repressed homosexuals trapped in loveless relationships, gays are generally noble and capable of spiritual enlightenment, religion is soul-suffocating bunkum, and Republicans occupy a moral plane similar to that of the Nazis. "You're nice. I can't believe you voted for Reagan," Louis tells Joe, the repressed Mormon gay man in "Angels."The men...