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Heavens Gate

Thoughts on Alan Cummings' One-Man Macbeth, The New Heaven's Gate Reissue, And More

James Franco | Posted 04.29.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: "The Testament of Mary, The Talented Mr Ripley, The American Friend, The Assembled Parties, Nikolai and the Others, Here Lies Love, Heaven's Gate, Let's Get Lost Movie, Macbeth, To the Wonder, Alan Cumming Macbeth, David Byrne, Entertainment News
James Franco

Macbeth with Alan Cumming: another dazzling and brilliant one-person show. Yes, Macbeth as a one-man show, a portrayal of Macbeth by a man losing his mind in an institution. Cumming is superb.

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For Many Trapped in Religious "Cults," Steve Hassan Keeps Hope Alive

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 03.30.2013 | Books
Read More: Deprogramming, Geshe Michael Roach, Dahn Yoga Cult, Anusara Yoga, Doomsday Cults, SYDA Cult, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Religious Cults, Heavens-Gate, Jonestown Massacre, Branch Davidians, Books News
Stewart J. Lawrence

In the past few years, Steve Hassan has worked with hundreds of families -- scoring numerous successes, but sometimes encountering disappointments, including threats of lawsuits -- and he's gone to school on his experiences and kept abreast of the latest academic research.

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David Moye

E.T.s Eat Corn Dogs? San Diego County Fair Targets Extraterrestrial Visitors

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 06.10.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Weird UK, Weird Carnivals, Unarius, San Diego Fair, Heaven's Gate, Eve Featherstone, Mufon, Two-Pound Turkey Leg, Mel Podell, San Diego Fair Extraterrestrials, UFO News, Tracey Kennedy, Video, Weird San Diego, Ed McBride, Weird Carnival, Linda Zweig, Weird California, Ufo Cults, Weird News News

Most fairs and carnivals try to attract a wide demographic: Families, singles, foodies, aspiring prize-winners, but the organizers at the San Diego Co...

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PHOTOS: 12 Infamous Box Office Disasters

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.21.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Box Office Bombs, Town and Country, Heaven's Gate, Movie News, Worst Box Office, Box Office Failures, How Do You Know, Gigli, Video, Box Office Flops, Mars Needs Moms, Green Lantern, Ishtar, John Carter, Slidepollajax, Biggest Box Office Bombs, Entertainment News

Maybe Disney should forget Mars altogether. Almost one year to the day that the studio released the high-budgeted "Mars Needs Moms" to some terrible b...

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9 Incredible Movie Disasters

Ben Taylor | Posted 05.13.2012 | Books
Read More: Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse on the Set, Heaven's Gate, Movie Disasters, The Abyss, Slidepollajax, Books News
Ben Taylor

What happens when high-stakes gambles like those made on feature films goes wrong? Just how much can the production of a movie unravel and what does it mean for those involved?

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AV Club's 'My Year Of Flops'

Nathan Rabin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Movie Flop, Howard the Duck, Freddie Got Fingered, Grindhouse, Movie Flops, Flops, Hulk, Movies, Box Office Failures, Return to Oz, Heaven's Gate, Box Office, The Cable Guy, Joe Versus the Volcano, Battlefield Earth, Ishtar, Be Kind Rewind, My Year of Flops, Av Club, Box Office Bomb, Books News
Nathan Rabin

Flops. Failures. Disasters. Fiascos. John Travolta's filmography. No matter what you call them, box-office bombs are almost invariably the scourge of ...

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The End Is Not Nigh: Take a Deep Breath and Move On

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Waco, Apocalypse, Mike Huckabee, Marshall Applewhite, End Days, Heaven's Gate, Jim Jones, Christianity, Religion Science, Eschatology, End Times, End of Times, End of Days, Christian Eschatology, Religion News
Jeff Schweitzer

Predictions of the Apocalypse or its personal equivalent of a direct path to heaven have been a common theme throughout human history. We seem determined to keep ourselves in a constant state of preparation for the end of time.

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Sheryl Crow and UFOs

Christopher Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Sheryl Crow, Heaven's Gate, Ufos, Suicide Pact, Cults, Marshall Applewhite, Sect, Entertainment News
Christopher Ryan

Any Sheryl Crow fans out there? If so, you no-doubt love her big breakthrough record, unoriginally called Sheryl Crow. A few years ago, I noticed something very strange about that record.

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The Chilean Earthquake and God's Wrath

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jehovah's Witnesses, Marshall Applewhite, Branch Davidians, Chile, Pat Robertson, Earthquake, Heaven's Gate, Vernon Wayne, Joseph Smith, Haiti, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

As the world reacts to the monstrous earthquake off the coast of Chile, one voice remains curiously quiet. Without Pat Robertson to guide us, we are unable to decipher why god has caused this particular calamity.

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