The American Family Association has called for 7-Eleven stores to remove the Marge Simpson-coveredPlayboy magazine from shelves. It argues that if "little boys" see the magazine, it will lure them into a lifestyle dependent on an addiction to porn.
Randy Sharp (American Family Association): "Most American dads know the dangers that porn represents to young males. It's irresponsible of 7-Eleven to display porn in front of boys who pop into 7-Elevens for a hot dog or a Slurpee. The cover will create the kind of curiosity that can easily lead [children] into an addictive porn habit. This is not what American families want to see in their neighborhood convenience store."
The first annual D23 Expo was held over the weekend and so much wonderful news came out of that four-day event. Disney geeks are still talking about all the phenomenal new television, film and theme park projects Disney will be working on in the next couple of years. Let us recap all the major news coming from the Expo.
Disney kicked off the Expo with a special screening of 30 minutes from The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose also sang one of the film's songs. Also on Thursday, guests were allowed to see large-scale models of Disney's California Adventure's Carsland. A model for Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor was also out. The annual Disney Legend Awards were held as well.
On Friday it was announced that the Disney Cruise Lines will start taking trips to Alaska in 2011. Timothy Dalton was announced to voice a character in Toy Story 3. Guillermo del Toro's "Disney Double Dare You" was announced as a new line of family-friendly horror films. The Muppets arrived on stage to sing and announce the title of their latest film, The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made! And Johnny Depp arrived as Jack Sparrow to announce the title of the fourth Pirates film. Coming to theaters during the Summer of 2011 will be Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Disney also announced that they would be remaking The Beatles' animated classic Yellow Submarine. Tim Burton will create a feature-length version of his short film Frankenweenie.
On Saturday, Disney announced their first Disneynature 3-D film Ocean World. Disney also announced that the leaked Fantasyland blueprints were real. The Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland will double in size by 2013. In 2012, The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Adventure, a brand-new dark ride, will open. The Be Our Guest restaurant and Gaston's Tavern quick-service eatery, and Princess Aurora, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel meet-and-greets as well. In 2013, Dumbo's Circus and Pixie Hollow will open. Disney Parks also confirmed that Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios would receive a new version of Star Tours by 2011. The ride will be in 3-D.
On the final day of the Expo, Disney announced a new Winnie-the-Pooh film. Cars 2 was also confirmed. Ken (voiced by Michael Keaton) will join Barbie in Toy Story 3. Muppet Mobile Lab will return to EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was also announced Disney's Hollywood Studios' Muppet Vision 3D will be updated to Disney Digital 3-D.
Here's the table-read for a Family Guy episode FOX will more than likely not air ... So instead of waiting for the eventual DVD release ... Close your eyes and listen to Peter and the gang tackle abortion ...
Seth MacFarlane announced at a weekend Comic-Con panel that Family Guy will tackle abortion ... but he isn't sure if the episode will ever make it to air...
Seth MacFarlane: "Twentieth Century Fox, as always, allowed us to produce the episode and then said, 'You know what? We're scared to fucking death of this.'"
FOX hasn't commented on the episode ... MacFarlane suggested that if the network decided not to air the episode it would show up on DVD ... The 2000 episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" was sent directly to DVD without a broadcast airing ...
Apparently the scene pushes the boundaries so far that in order to have it pass the [British Board of Film Classification] censors in the U.K. and be distributed in the U.S. [the studio was] forced to re-edit. BelAmi's amorous twins shared a scene together in Sex Buddies 1, and ... well, they just couldn't keep their hands off of each other. It may seem like in today's market you can get away with anything, but one thing is certain: You can't get away with two hot twins kissing and playing around with each other.
The uninhibited twins said they were only doing what comes naturally to them ...
Milo Peters: "If we do it at home anyway, what's wrong with doing it on film?"
The only way to view the uncensored, unedited version is online at BelAmiOnline.com ... The uncut DVD version is available through the site as well ...
A week before it was scheduled to premiere in the Ukraine ... Brüno has been formally banned from playing within its borders ...
The Ukraine's Culture Ministry dubbed the film "immoral" and called it "obscene and improper" ... It said the film could potentially "cause damage to public morals" ...
The group said that the film featured an "artistically unjustified exhibition of sexual organs and sexual relations, homosexual acts in a blatantly graphic form, obscene language, sadism, and antisocial behavior which could damage the moral upbringing of our citizens" ...
The U.K. has released the full version of Brüno ... and it will release a second (more teen-friendly) version on July 24 ...
The "toned down" version chops 1 minute and 50 seconds from the original film so that it can lower its rating from an 18-certificate (Britain's equivalent of an R-rating) to one that allows viewers ages 15 and under into the theater ...
Dr. Ted Baehr from The Christian Film & Television Commission thinks Watchmen should have received an NC-17 rating for its "constant display of male anatomy" ...
Dr. Ted Baehr: "After all, would Casablanca become an even better work of art if the script contained a bunch of "f" words, or if Ingrid Bergman appeared completely nude? Definitely not!"
Baehr apparently has an issue with nudity in an R-rated, adult-oriented comic book film adaptation ...
The debut films in Lucas Entertainment's Lucas Raunch line have been flagged by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) early last week and were prevented from entering the country ...
The titles were Piss! (which focuses on watersports) and Farts! (which focuses on passing gas) ...
Lucas Entertainment CEO Michael Lucas found the decision "odd" ...
Michael Lucas: "I was surprised that a country that is more progressive than the U.S., and more open-minded in areas like gay marriage, has some sort of obscenity law that would ban these videos."
The Canadian legal standards includes in its definition of obscenity ... the "ingestion of someone else's urine ... with a sexual purpose" ... The agency classifies watersports as "degrading and dehumanizing, with a risk of substantial harm" ...
A PETA ad that was to air during the Super Bowl was too racy for NBC ... The ad's tagline is "vegetarians have better sex" ...
The ad is too racy to show on television ... So when the girls on ABC's The View talked about it ... they couldn't show viewers what they were referring to ...
So ... Whoopi Goldberg took the matter into her own hands ...
Here is the clip of Whoopi reenacting the PETA commercial ...
The creator of the "Men on a Mission" calendar was excommunicated Sunday after a disciplinary meeting with local church leaders ...
Chad Hardy says he bears no ill feelings toward the council of elders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... A letter from the church should arrive in about two weeks that officially severs Hardy's ties from the church ...
Chad Hardy: "I felt like I spoke my truth. Bottom-line, they still felt the calendar is inappropriate and not the image that the church wants to have. I have no ill feelings toward any of those people. They did what they believed was right and I really do feel it was the best decision for both of us."
The "Men on a Mission" calendar features shirtless Mormon missionaries ... The calendar has sold 10,000 copies ... and a 2009 calendar will be released in September ...
A Las Vegas man who created a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing ... and possible excommunication because of the project ...
Chad Hardy is a lifetime member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... Hardy was summoned by letter to a Sunday meeting with a council of elders to discuss his "conduct unbecoming a member of the church" ...
The "Men on a Mission" calendars are a takeoff of the popular firefighters calendars ... The 2008 debut calendar features 12 returned church missionaries in modest poses and completely shirtless ... The calendar has sold nearly 10,000 copies and a 2009 version has already gone to presses ...
Chad Hardy: "You see more in a JCPenney catalog. I just feel like my right to free speech is being violated. It's not tearing anybody down. I wondered what would happen if we took that perfect 'Disneyland' image that the church spends millions of dollars cultivating each year and shook it up a little bit. I'm still a good Mormon boy in many ways. I still want to hold onto my heritage."
Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno may get slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA ...
The Seth Rogen/Elizabeth Banks comedy about two friends making porn to make a quick buck may have a difficult time being found in multiplexes if it does get that rating ...
Seth Rogen: "It's like a romantic comedy. It's a romantic relationship movie—with a lot of porn and balls. My balls are not in it."
Smith is fighting the MPAA so that the film get get a consumer friendly R rating ...
Seth Rogen: "You can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird. This is not anything outside of what we've done before. The word 'porno' is in the title, and that kind of freaks people out."
Famed comedian Joan Rivers was booted from the live UK talk show Loose Women on Tuesday for using profanity ...
Rivers was unaware the show was not filmed with a time delay ... She warned producers they would have to bleep what she was about to say before she started talking about Russell Crowe ...
The show didn't have someone ready on the censor button ... and producers asked Rivers to leave during a commercial break ...
Rachael Ray is in a pickle ... The perky television chef had her Dunkin' Donuts online ad campaign pulled following a scandal over her scarf ...
Ray is wearing a fringed black-and-white scarf during the ad ... and some say that the neckwear supports Muslin extremism and terrorism ...
The ad was pulled over the weekend due to ... as Dunkin' Donuts puts it ... "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee" ...
The ad began running May 7 ... Ray is holding an iced coffee while wearing the scarf ... Some conservatives say the scarf resembles a traditional Arab headdress called a kaffiyeh ...
Visa has filmed a cheeky new commercial overseas chronicling the journey of a desperate naked man ... The television commercial was produced by Saatchi & Saatchi in London and is entitled "Running Man" ...
The man is in a rush and uses his credit card to buy a hot dog, clothes, a small motorbike, a suit, a haircut and a cleanup ...
Earlier today ... NBC's Today Show interviewed actress Jane Fonda and The Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the feminist play ...
Fonda talks about her initial hesitance about performing in the play ...
Jane Fonda: "I hadn't seen the play. I live in Georgia OK. I was asked to do a monologue called 'Cunt,' and I said, 'I don't think so, I've got enough problems.'"
The women appeared unfazed by the word ... but Vieira did apologize for the utterance about ten minutes later ...
Meredith Vieira: "Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television. It was a slip and she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."
NBC News edited the word from its West Coast broadcast of the Today Show ...
I guess NBC's censors were asleep at the switch ... which appears to be a trend on morning television ... Diane Keaton let the F-Bomb slip by the censors on ABC's Good Morning America last month ...
Here is a clip of the C-Bomb ... and Vieira's subsequent apology ...
The Parents Television Council wants CBS to drop its plans to air the imported Showtime drama Dexter this February ...
Even though the critically-acclaimed series will receive massive edits (mainly language and some of its more gruesome scenes) in order to conform to the stricter standards of free-to-air broadcast networks ... The PTC would rather not see this series grace CBS' airwaves ...
Tim Winter (PTC President): "We are formally asking CBS to cancel its plan to air the first season of Dexter on its television network. This show is not suitable for airing on broadcast television; it should remain on a premium subscription cable network. The biggest problem with the series is something that no amount of editing can get around: the series compels viewers to empathize with a serial killer, to root for him to prevail, to hope he doesn't get discovered. Dexter introduces audiences to the depths of depravity and indifference as it chronicles the main character’s troubled quest for vigilante justice by celebrating graphic, premeditated murder."
Dexter is scheduled to premiere on CBS on Sunday, February 17 ...
Earlier today ... ABC's Good Morning America featured an interview with Diane Keaton ... Diane Sawyer interviewed the Mad Money actress ...
Keaton complimented Sawyer for being "a beautiful woman" ... and then the F-Bomb was dropped ...
Diane Keaton: Those lips, I love them. I would like to have lips like that. Then I wouldn't have worked on my fucking personality. Excuse me, my personality. If I had lips like yours, I'd be better off. My life would be better. I would be married. I have these thin lips."
Sawyer was in utter shock ... covering her mouth in amazement ...
Diane Sawyer: "My mother is going to work on your personality with soap in your mouth."
Keaton apologized for the curse word ... as the interview ended Sawyer jokingly said ... "This is Diane Keaton, who will be answering to the censors."
An ABC spokesperson said that GMA edited the broadcast for the rest of the timezones to bleep the offending word ...
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