Hollywood stars going to hell

For several years, fundamentalist churches have been staging alternative-Halloween events for teens, intending to keep them off the streets and away from the "satanic" festival. One of the most popular manifestations of this is a sort of theater piece-cum-environmental performance called "Hell House," which fills a seemingly traditional haunted house with the evils of drugs, premarital sex, homosexuality, and so forth. Now several Hollywood stars are putting on a staged version of "Hell House," starring Bill Maher as the devil, and featuring everyone from Traci Lords to Richard Belzer (you know, the weird, skinny cop on one of those "Law and Order" shows). (Links courtesy Chr. Today weblog)