Her sister is with same mister and they've got 25 kids

THE BEAUTY of a TV show like A&E's Escaping Polygamy is that it allows people who think there's not enough religion on TV and people who think there's too much religion on TV to both be right.

In last night's episode, which thankfully was watched by Us Weekly so we didn't have to throw up our lunch, we learned that when Lorie wed Verl, he was already married to Lorie's older sister and the couple had 15 children. Lorie added another 10 children with Verl. If that's not too close for comfort, Verl is also married to his half-sister and together they have six children.

They all belong to the polygamist Salt Lake City-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

To answer the question, "What would Jesus do?" the answer is clear: RUN!

"My mom walked out of our life when I was 9, and [my sister] took the role of a mother, and she really felt strongly that I needed to be a part of her family," Lorie said. "She would tell me that she felt like if I didn't do this, then I would lose my eternal salvation."

But eternal salvation, you know, comes with a price.

"Thinking about my husband with another woman, I have to blank that out because it's too hard. And having it be that it was my sister was even harder. You just sometimes think, you wish you could wake up from that bad dream because you wish he could just be yours."

Yeah, that Verl does seem like a real catch.

Remaking a movie that won 11 Academy Awards the first time around seems like a fruitless undertaking, but that didn't stop the folks behind a new Ben-Hur from reimagining it without Charlton Heston.

Or the great director William Wyler (Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, The Best Years of Our Lives).

But even with religious movie critics putting a positive spin on the epic, they couldn't drown out the negative reviews of critics or viewers who wanted to watch Usain Bolt race instead of a chariot.

The new Ben-Hur, which cost about $100 million to make, debuted with just $11.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That makes it one of the season's more pricy flops, following in the tough faith-based waters of Exodus: Gods and Kings and Noah.

Suicide Squad, meanwhile, held the top spot for the third straight weekend with an estimated $20.7 million. It has now made $262.3 million domestically (fourth best for the summer) despite steep declines and poor reaction from critics and fans alike.

Just goes to show that a mediocre comic-book movie still tops a mediocre biblical movie when it comes to the box office.

Not to mention hedonistic fare. Seth Rogen's foul-mouthed food animated comedy Sausage Party continued to do well in its second weekend. It took in $15.3 million, good enough for second place, and bringing its two-week total to $65.3 million.

New release War Dogs, the first movie after The Hangover trilogy for director Todd Phillips, was lambasted by critics, but it sold a decent $14.3 million in ticket sales.

Kubo and the Two Strings, an acclaimed fantasy about a boy in ancient Japan, debuted with $12.6 million, the weakest opening of any film from Laika, the Oregon-based animation studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls.

Several pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl - a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said Sunday.

The official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said many pills were falsely labeled as "Watson 385." According to Drugs.com, that stamp is used to identify pills containing a mix of acetaminophen and hydrocodone.

About a dozen tablets were found in a dressing room at Paisley Park, but the vast majority was in bottles of Vitamin C and aspirin that had been tucked inside a suitcase and bags - including one Prince often carried with him.

Autopsy results released in June show Prince died April 21 of an accidental fentanyl overdose. The official who spoke to the AP said records show the 57-year-old entertainer had no prescription for any controlled substances in the state of Minnesota in the 12 months before he died. Authorities are still investigating how Prince obtained the drugs.

* The New York Post reports that according to Alan Berger's new book, Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency, former CBS anchor Katie Couric took a $1 million pay cut so staff members of the CBS Evening News would not have to be laid off.

Dear executives in other distressed industries: See above.

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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