Mar 012011
 
Jane Russell, 1921-2011

Silver screen icon, Jane Russell, died at age 89 of respiratory illness at her home in Santa Maria, California.  The entertainer was best known for being the “figure” that launched film producer Howard Hughes’ five year battle with Hollywood censors over the 1940′s western, The Outlaw.   In a marketing move that seems rather quaint today, [...]

 
When did Booty Become a Four Letter Word in Cheerleading?

I will grant you that competitive cheerleading at the high school and college level is a real sport and that what we see on NFL sidelines is just an excuse to sell calendars.  So when I saw this story out of Nebraska, I was confused.   An 11-year-old girl who was thrown off a Nebraska elementary [...]

 
Banned Books, Just Not the Ones You Expected

So last week was Banned Books Week and the Christian Science Monitor took time out to point to five books that strangely haven’t been banned.  That’s right these books are somehow less offensive than Lolita, Catcher In The Rye, or Harry Potter: “Mein Kampf,” by Adolf Hitler The dictator’s famous manifesto contained such offensive lines [...]

 
Brutality Within The Careful Limits of Good Taste

Is it just me or is the entertainment-industrial complex getting increasingly schizophrenic?  Now ten years into the 21st century, we seem to be having the same debates we had in the last century about how much sex and violence is acceptable  in our entertainment (films, movies, music, comic books, video games, etc). On the one [...]

 
Gossip Girl Threesome Strikes Fear Into Parents

The Parents Television Council is threatening to declare war on CW Television Network affiliates who broadcast next week’s Very Special Threesome episode of Gossip Girl. In a letter to stations, PTC chief  windbag Tim Winter blasts the scheduled storyline as “reckless and irresponsible” and claims the show is “expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers.” The head [...]

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