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Archive for April 29th, 2008

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Apr

PETA Helps Struggling Animal Actors Find Unemployment. Sometimes.

By The Oversneer 12 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and PETA

aflac-duck.jpgI know I’ve been harping on PETA a bit much lately, but it’s hard to ignore this gem from Columbus, Georgia:

PETA has nominated Aflac for a PETA Litterbox Award for using a live, young ape in one of its latest commercials, “Orangutan.” The annual “awards” single out companies that portray animals negatively or use creatures like apes in advertising …

[PETA spokesdweeb Kristie] Phelps admitted PETA does not know which agency the orangutan used in the Aflac ad came from. But the animal rights group is now pushing Aflac to pull the ad and pledge to never use apes again in its advertisements …

In the “Orangutan” commercial, an employee asks her boss if the business has Aflac. Her boss tells her they have “something else” and gestures to an unruly orangutan hanging from a factory light, which represents another insurance company.

Aflac used the commercial — which first aired in January — to convey the idea that there is no substitute for Aflac. It was the 33rd installment of Aflac’s commercial series produced by the New York-based Kaplan Thaler Group.

Has PETA never seen the AFLAC commercials?

Hint: There’s a freakin’ DUCK in every single one. All 33 of them. And if that annoying voiceover from Gilbert Gottfried isn’t an example of “portraying animals negatively,” I don’t know what is. But it took a hairy ape to get PETA’s attention.

I guess the pigs from Animal Farm were right: Some animals are more “equal” than others.

All together now, with feeling … AFLAC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kYYwMLQ38E

29
Apr

The Bourne Hypocrisy

By Simon Scowl 10 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars

When Matt Damon hit it big 10 years ago, not many people foresaw him ever becoming a huge action star. And apparently he’s still not so sure about it himself. According to MTV’s Multiplayer blog, Damon refused to participate in the upcoming video game The Bourne Conspiracy because it’s too violent.

Wait. What?

Damon was in negotiations to lend his voice and likeness when development was getting off the ground, but he took issue with the game’s level of violence and pulled out…

Damon’s decision could be linked to feelings shared by his mother, [Nancy] Carlsson-Paige. Earlier this month, Paige participated in an online chat with newspaper The Boston Globe, where she shared strong feelings about violent games. “I am very wary of violent video games,” she said. “Research shows they desensitize kids to violence, even more because they engage kids in committing violence.”

When asked if she approves of her son’s violent films, she admitted they always agree on media issues. [I'm pretty sure this is supposed to say "they don't always agree."--SS] “Matt and I don’t share the same views about violence in adult films, but we do see eye-to-eye on the importance of protecting children,” she said. “We both support regulations to stop the marketing of violence in films to children through violent toys, products, and video games.”

So the movie star who’s made millions by pretending to beat up and kill people doesn’t think anybody else should be making a living from depictions of him beating up and killing people. Got it.

“Well, the Bourne movies are Rated R PG-13!” Which doesn’t keep kids from seeing them if they really want to, any more than the T–Teen rating is going to stop them from playing this video game. And that’s assuming the whole claim about video games causing violence is correct, which makes you wonder what caused violence during the 99% of human history before video games were invented.

Matt’s mommy is still trying to get on her high horse after he’s already ridden it all the way to the bank.

(Hat tip: Kotaku via Deceiver reader Aspen)

29
Apr

Spitzer’s Hooker Sues Girls Gone Wild for $10-Mil

By Holly Won't 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Legal Messes, Politicos and The Naughty Bits

dupre.jpgGov. Eliot Spitzer’s downfall Ashley Alexandra Dupré has filed a $10-million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild because, she alleges, they coerced her with booze into signing away the rights to her breasts when she was 17 years old.

Far be it from me to defend Joe Francis — talk about a Class-A douchebag — but seriously, an admitted hooker claiming that she had to be plied with alcohol to pull out the funbags for the camera? A bit hard to, um, swallow.

Francis tells TMZ:

“We were very surprised and in fact amazed today that Ms. Dupree filed a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild. We have not publicly released any new video of Ms. Dupree, due to corporate policy of not using footage of individuals younger than 18. It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupree could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification.”

That would be her fake ID that said she was 21 at the time. How fast will this be tossed out of the courts? Before lunch, perhaps?

29
Apr

Sting & Trudy: Two More Ecocrites

By Simon Scowl 11 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Musicians and Socialites

Looks like the new trend among Green knowitalls is to scold others for not saving the planet, and then:

“When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says ‘I’m a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint”,’ [Sting's wife Trudy Styler] said.

She then asked: “Are we being hypocritical?’ before seeming to answer the question herself.

“He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge.

“I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It’s a difficult one.”

Neat trick, huh? Instead of making people try to wrap their heads around some lame, twisty excuse for your hypocrisy, you just flat-out admit it. Somehow, apparently, that makes it all okay. (Works for Arianna too. Or does it?)

Do they really need to do all that galavanting around? Sting must have more than enough money to last the rest of his life, no matter how many Tuscan estates he buys. Isn’t it just his ego keeping him out there, spewing far more than his fair share of carbon into the atmosphere and, if what he says is correct, helping to destroy the Earth? Does she really need to fly her chef 100 miles just to make her a bowl of pasta? Aren’t they really just two more rich, pompous jerks who don’t know what they’re talking about?

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