The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Debra Winger and Rights Camera Action!

James Byrd Jr. and the Struggle for Tolerance

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Nicole Hughes:

Green Video of the Week: 5 Tips for Reducing Your Garbage

The Week in Green Politics

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Andy Kondrat:

Disappearing Destinations: Visit Before They Vanish

Chuck Norris Wants America to Start Drilling for Oil Here and Now!

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Jon Popham:

NASA Plans Voyage to the Sun

The Girl Effect

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Giulia Rozzi:

Gay Discrimination at Seattle Baseball Game

Bison Brucellosis

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Gina Telaroli:

Fathers Day Celebration of Movie Dads #1

My Father’s Gift of Tecumseh!

The second look at one of my favorite movie dads. (#1 is here)

The Lebowski’s in The Big Lebowski

By the film’s end, both The Big Lebowski and the other Lebowski known as the Dude are both fathers, one of Maud and one of Maud’s baby. The Big Lebowski, as it stands, is definitely not the world’s best dad. He remarried a young blond after his wife’s death and faked her kidnapping so he could get money from his daughter Maud. While the Dude (the other Lebowski) actually helps Maud, his lady friend, to conceive her own child and by request won’t have anything to do with the child. Regardless of their parenting skills, these dads are fun to watch.

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Father’s Day is quickly approaching so for the next few days leading up to the Sunday celebration, I’m going to do little profiles on my favorite movie dads - and by favorite I don’t necessarily mean the “best” by conventional standards. On Sunday I’ll compile them into a easily digestible Top 10 List (with new numbers). For now, here’s my one of my all time favorite movie dads:

Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter

He may have married into the family, but Preacher Powell is one of the most terrifying and yet captivating fathers I have ever seen on on film. His quest to find out where an his prison mate (who gets killed) hid the money he stole leads Powell to the Harper family, where he marries the new widow and in turn terrorizes the children with his screwed up version of Christianity. The use of shadow and music are also outstanding and hypnotic in the best way possible.

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